Society for Participatory Medicine
e-patients.net blog
e-pts resources
Interview: Mary Matthiesen, Conversations for Life
Mary Matthiesen, founder of Conversations for Life, has 17 years of front-line experience in healthcare, end of life care, and executive leadership. She’s a transpersonal educator, coach, and community facilitator, raising awareness and promoting social change in support of living and dying well. Mary and I recently discussed her focus on end of life care, [...]
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Medpedia – where are the patients??
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Take control of your images!
Where to get DICOM readers
Update: links to free viewers for Windows, Mac, and Linux, for the DICOM image format used for scan images Background information on DICOM, and the Wikipedia entry Links to sample images, so you can experiment with a viewer Why I’m writing about this: Linux guru Doc Searls wrote a profound piece last month about inability [...]
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An e-Patient Hero Leaves Us
Randy Pausch, teacher, speaker, e-patient, and father dies at 47.
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Now THAT’s an e-participating patient
From ScienceRoll: “Jan Martens at Medblog.nl … mentioned Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald who should be considered one of the best examples of e-patients in the world. See why…” Hey Jen McCabe Gorman, what is it with the Dutch?
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Can Professional Medical Societies Further the Ideals of Participatory Medicine?
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Steal these slides
Click images to view full size originals. Last weekend I stumbled across the “attic” of Tom Ferguson MD, who was the “George Washington of patient empowerment,” as CNN put it this month, citing his work since 1975 to create a world of freedom and power for patients. (That’s you. Thank him.) Those familiar with this blog [...]
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