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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 [...]

Our Bodies Ourselves: support this pioneer of empowered, participatory healthcare

e-Patient Dave | December 5, 2009

Some people think e-patient ideas are new. They’re not. I’d like to give credit to a noble antecedent, and ask for your support. Shortly after I discovered this blog (February ’08) I recognized two strong precedents from earlier in my life: Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Baby Book (opening words: “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do,”) and Our Bodies, [...]