by e-Patient Dave | Aug 4, 2023
The BMJ has published an obituary of lifetime SPM member “Mighty Casey” Quinlan. We (co-authors Jan Oldenburg and I) are thrilled that the editors, particularly obituaries editor Birte Twistleman, gave full voice to everything Casey. May her memory be a...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 28, 2023
The board of our Society for Participatory Medicine has voted unanimously to give the society’s “Doc Tom” award to life member Casey Quinlan, who is in hospice in Richmond VA, as we blogged this month. On Saturday former board member Jan Oldenburg...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 24, 2023
On Twitter this morning SPM member Stacy Hurt announced that the big pharma conference DIA Global in Boston this June is #PatientsIncluded. Several levels of support are available, including one full scholarship including travel expenses, plus ten free patient...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 16, 2023
Update 3/19: We’ve opened a CaringBridge page for Casey, where her support team will post updates. You can subscribe to get notifications and to leave words of support, memories, etc. Anyone can view; posting requires free registration. This news hit us worse...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 30, 2022
This post is about a paper I co-authored in JMIR in August with Bertalan Meskó MD PhD, Patient Design: The Importance of Including Patients in Designing Health Care. It’s challenging and perhaps a bit confrontational to conventional healthcare, because it...
Driving Transformation: Change Management Strategies for Integrating Participatory Medicine in HealthcareApril 6, 2024
The Challenge for Medicare Part D Patients: Inability to Utilize Pharmaceutical Programs to Reduce Medication CostsMarch 29, 2024
Shared Decision-making: Becoming a Better Advocate for your HealthcareMarch 28, 2024
2024 SPM Update from Board Chair Mary HenningsJanuary 17, 2024
Hey ChatGPT, what’s Participatory Medicine?November 20, 2023
Recent Comments