Participation

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First anniversary of our Declaration of Participation. Please renew!

e-Patient Dave | July 4, 2010

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 [...]

patient networks, positive patterns, pt/doc co-care, trends & principles, Why PM

#WhyPM?

Gilles Frydman | October 13, 2009

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 [...]

Why PM

Participation Matters

Susannah Fox | October 2, 2009

In politics and in health care, participation matters as much as access. The passion we saw in the political campaigns last year is matched by the passion we see when someone is trying to save a life, find a better treatment, or just manage the health of a loved one. What are you doing in [...]