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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 [...]

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The HealthCare Pyramid – Views from the Apex and the Base

e-Patient Dave | April 15, 2010

We’ve talked in the past about “d-patients” – doctors who become e-patients themselves. Our own founder Tom Ferguson MD was one. “D-patients” are a special case that proves, once and for all, that being an e-patient has nothing to do with rejecting the medical establishment, as some have feared. Being a d-patient, or any e-patient, [...]

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Participatory Medicine and Patient Research: It’s Gonna be a New World, indeed!

Charlie Smith | September 17, 2009

Matthew Herper’s post about thalidomide treatment of Myeloma is a good example of how patients will contribute to medical knowledge in the future, and may form a cautionary tale for patients who get involved to this degree in formulating new treatment approaches.

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Steal these slides

e-Patient Dave | July 15, 2008

Click images to view full size originals. Last weekend I stumbled across the “attic” of Tom Ferguson MD, who was the “George Washington of patient empowerment,” as CNN put it this month, citing his work since 1975 to create a world of freedom and power for patients. (That’s you. Thank him.) Those familiar with this blog [...]