Traditional Medicine

e-patient stories, general, shared decision making

Jonena Relth: Participatory medicine: my first-hand account

Kathleen O'Malley | September 9, 2011

Jonena Relth submitted this guest post to share her very positive experience with her surgeon. I was being prepped for surgery last week and my surgeon, Dr. Davies, came in to discuss the procedure. He explained to me that he had reviewed my file several times and decided that he would prefer to perform a [...]

Participatory Medicine: Blending Traditional Medicine with “Health 2.0″

Charlie Smith | June 16, 2009

Tom Davenport, in a Harvard Business Publishing Blog post, does a nice job of discussing the merging of “Health 2.0″, the aggregate of online communities, wiki’s, bloggers, and tweets, with the role of traditional medical providers. He asks whether, if you get seriously ill, you will rely solely on colleagues online or whether you’ll seek out a [...]