{"id":2320,"date":"2009-05-11T10:01:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2012-01-30T18:12:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T23:12:57","slug":"participatory-medicine-as-revolution-think-critically-communicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2009\/05\/participatory-medicine-as-revolution-think-critically-communicate.html","title":{"rendered":"Participatory Medicine as Revolution! Think Critically! Communicate!"},"content":{"rendered":"
My son graduated from college last year and is now in Nepal, visiting schools and writing about rural education under the Maoist regime. He was excited to tell me, when I visited him recently in India, about how a classic book on education, Pedagogy of the Oppressed<\/a> by Brazilian Paulo Freire<\/a>, radically influenced and inspired him to readjust his career goals.<\/p>\n The book postulates that real revolution can occur only when the playing field is leveled between teacher and student, whereby critical thinking is infused in education and where \u2018teachers become students\u2019 and \u2018students become teachers.’ Communication amongst students (i.e., social networking<\/em>) is equally important in this equation. While in India I read this short book, substituting doctor <\/em>for \u2018teacher\u2019 and patient <\/em>for \u2018student\u2019 and indeed, feel better equipped for the PM agenda.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n