Medicine
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Video message to medical students learning Medicine 2.0
Last week we posted a request from Dr. Bertalan Meskó for video messages from e-patients to his “Medicine 2.0″ course. Here’s my submission. (This is my first “vlog” (video blog) so the quality’s not great – like everything “e,” it’ll improve with experience.) He’ll welcome further submissions for viewing anytime. Post them to YouTube with [...]
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NPSF’s magnificent Universal Patient Compact
One of my personal pleasures in the first year of the Society for Participatory Medicine has been discovering people in other parts of the “patient culture” who’ve been doing wonderful, empowering, participatory things for years – and who’ve already been producing valuable results for years. Example: the patient safety movement. On Paul Levy’s blog I [...]
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Calling All Physicians: Support the Participatory Medicine Movement
Participatory Medicine is a new paradigm in healthcare, one that promises to enhance healthcare efficiency, transform the experience for both the patient and their providers, and improve healthcare outcomes. This cultural shift requires adaptation among healthcare professionals (including physicians) as well as patients and caregivers. And yet changing culture amongst physicians remains challenging, for a [...]
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Patient to doctor: “Why aren’t you harder on me?”
A joint post by e-Patient Dave and Dr. Danny Sands, written from alternating points of view. Danny: An important moment happened a few months ago during office hours – important because it brought a profound shift in Dave’s view of the doctor-patient relationship. And that’s a vital part of participatory medicine.
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Journal of Participatory Medicine cited on Scientific American blog
Scientific American writer Robin Lloyd (Twitter: @RobinLloyd99) has written a nice, clear, hit-the-nail-on-the-head post on their blog about our Journal of Participatory Medicine.
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Health News Review launches new site with improved e-patient training
There’s a new resource for a vital e-patient skill: reading health news responsibly. It helps us be smarter before we bring new findings to the attention of other patients and our providers – not to mention smarter for our own benefit. When “Doc Tom” Ferguson defined “e-patient” in the 1990s, “Educated” wasn’t one of his [...]
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Participatory medicine and health data rights on NPR
NPR’s Morning Edition story, “Patients Turn to Online Buddies for Help Healing,” combined research and real-life examples, participatory medicine and health data rights. Much of what I said during my interview with Joseph Shapiro is based on what I’ve written and read here on e-patients.net, so, first, thank you. I’ve already started answering questions on [...]
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#WhyPM?
Note: if you do not use Twitter an explanation of this post’s title may be in order. #WhyPM is the Twitter hashtag we have been using collectively to announce the launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine and to mention topics of interest from the Journal and the Internet. So what is Participatory Medicine? Simply [...]
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“Doctors Are Killing Their Profession, the Healthcare System and Their Patients with Paternalism”
That’s the strongest language yet in our “Why Participatory Medicine” series. And it’s not our words – it’s the words of a board certified neurosurgeon after he heard the Participatory Medicine message at Medicine 2.0 last month. The message echoed his thoughts, and he blogged about it. The “DocPatient” blog, by Dr. Louis Cornacchia of [...]
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Keep an eye out for tomorrow morning’s post
In our “Why Participatory Medicine” series, leading up to the October 21 launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine, tomorrow’s guest post will be a special treat for me. It contains a breakthrough insight about participatory medicine, and it’s a perfect example of how social media is enabling a wildfire acceleration of the spread of [...]
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