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JoPM: “Making Every Second Count” at the Doctor’s Office
Co-Editors-in-Chief Joe and Terry Graedon tell patients how to get the most out of today’s all-too-brief medical office visits in the April editorial of the Journal of Participatory Medicine. “Making Every Second Count – What We Can Do As Patients” complements JoPM’s March editorial, which tackled the time problem from the physician perspective.
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Participatory Medicine as Revolution! Think Critically! Communicate!
My son graduated from college last year and is now in Nepal, visiting schools and writing about rural education under the Maoist regime. He was excited to tell me, when I visited him recently in India, about how a classic book on education, Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Brazilian Paulo Freire, radically influenced and inspired [...]
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Immediate data requested. Please share with breast cancer patients everywhere.
Chapter 5 of the e-Patient White Paper is E-Patients as Medical Researchers. It details how, in the absence of sufficient medical data for their cases, patients and parents have conducted extraordinary research, time after time, often stunning the medical professionals. A key sentence in Chapter 5 is “One of the great benefits of patient-initiated research [...]
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Breaking News at Hematology Meeting – for Patients
Andrew Schorr is the founder of Patient Power, LLC, and shares this dispatch, his second for e-patients.net: I had a whirlwind weekend at the Moscone Center in San Francisco where I broadcast five and a half hours of live interviews with leading hematologists and hematologist/oncologists on the latest news in a variety of chronic conditions. [...]
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Patient Power: Andrew Schorr
Andrew Schorr‘s recent comment also merits a separate post: I am a 12-year leukemia survivor and very grateful to the ACOR community members who helped me numerous times along the way. I have dedicated my life to creating community online and also, in a supplementary way, on radio. But my concept of community is a [...]
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