Year Ago Today

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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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Participatory Medicine around the world: the Seven Preliminary Conclusions reach India

e-Patient Dave | September 26, 2009

A Google alert popped up today, saying that a participatory physician in India had cited this blog. Don’t we love it when social media let empowering information spread! It’s exactly what our founder “Doc Tom” predicted with his now-famous 1995 triangle slides: the internet gives us access to information and to each other, which puts [...]

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The e-patient white paper: Seven Preliminary Conclusions

e-Patient Dave | January 27, 2009

One year ago today I finished reading e-Patients: How they can help us heal healthcare, the e-patient white paper. It turned my head around because although I’d experienced excellent care in almost all ways, it showed that I as a patient have far more to contribute than I ever would have imagined. The people who [...]