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First anniversary of our Declaration of Participation. Please renew!

How fitting for the Fourth – a year after our Declaration (see below), I just received my renewal notice for the Society for Participatory Medicine. Here’s a Doctor’s Channel interview, posted a year ago today, in which Society co-chair Alan Greene MD draws an analogy with America’s early presidents: Here’s the Declaration we posted a [...]

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medical records, policy issues, pt/doc co-care, Why PM

Hm: Because of viewing my visit notes, I did something better.

Earlier this month I wrote that the OpenNotes project had kicked off. It’s important – if you haven’t read about it, please click that link. My primary physician and I are participating, but candidly I didn’t expect to get much out of it: as I told a friend, “I’m not sick!” Yet, the very first [...]

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