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Why Participatory Medicine?

Daniel Z. Sands, MD, MPH | November 9, 2009

For most people, their impetus to be actively engaged in healthcare comes from an experience with serious illness—either their own or a loved one’s. My journey into participatory medicine began during my internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital, a public urban hospital, in the late 1980s. While there, I had a number of realizations [...]

“Doctors Are Killing Their Profession, the Healthcare System and Their Patients with Paternalism”

e-Patient Dave | October 3, 2009

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 [...]