Making Healthcare Better through Participatory Medicine
December 10, 2009 · Filed Under Why PM, net-friendly docs, positive patterns, pt/doc co-care, reforming hc · 5 Comments
There’s new validation that participatory medicine is an idea whose time has come: the co-chairs of the Society for Participatory Medicine (my primary physician Dr. Danny Sands and I) are on this year’s list of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better, an annual feature of HealthLeaders magazine.
With Dr. Sands in an examining room at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (photo courtesy of BIDMC)
We want to acknowledge some of the pioneers who paved the way. Danny said an email that “people like e-patients.net founder “Doc Tom” Ferguson, Tom Delbanco, Warner Slack, and others started it. I’m standing on their shoulders. I only helped you start yourself.”
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