Keywords: Participatory medicine, patient-physician communication, patient-physician partnerships, physician-patient partnerships, shared decision making.
Citation: Smith CW. Recommended post: “time to tango.” J Participat Med. 2011 Mar 17; 3:e14.
Published: March 17, 2011.
Competing Interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

 
Our former Editor in Chief makes a nice participatory medicine analogy to the tango in this blog post.

As usual, Jessie Gruman has a unique way of expressing important issues. I really like the way, in this recent post on the CFAH blog, the Prepared Patient Forum, she compares the relationship between patients and doctors to a dance, in which each participant must be an active partner. The discussion of participatory medicine is incomplete without describing how empowered patients are to relate to their doctors and Jessie does a beautiful job of it. We miss you at JoPM!

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