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Keywords:<\/em><\/strong> Participatory medicine, patient-physician communication, patient-physician partnerships, physician-patient partnerships, shared decision making.
\nCitation:<\/em><\/strong> Smith CW. Recommended post: \u201ctime to tango.\u201d J Participat Med. 2011 Mar 17; 3:e14.
\nPublished:<\/em><\/strong> March 17, 2011.
\nCompeting Interests:<\/em><\/strong> The author has declared that no competing interests exist.<\/p>\n

 
\nOur former Editor in Chief makes a nice participatory medicine analogy to the tango in this blog post.<\/a><\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

Copyright: <\/em><\/strong>\u00a9 2011 Charles W. Smith. Published here under license by The Journal of Participatory Medicine. Copyright for this article is retained by the author(s), with first publication rights granted to the Journal of Participatory Medicine. All journal content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. By virtue of their appearance in this open-access journal, articles are free to use, with proper attribution, in educational and other non-commercial settings.<\/p>\n

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