Society for Participatory Medicine
Journal of Participatory Medicine
Opinion
Editorials, Vol. 4, 2012
Medication Errors Result from Current Medication Reconciliation Practices: It’s Time to Adopt Participatory Reconciliation
Participatory reconciliation has the potential to prevent many costly, or even lethal, medication errors.
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Another Mental Health Professional Shares Her “Self-Care” Story
In this reply to a recent JoPM article, a psychologist shares her own insights and experiences about self-care, as a patient and a clinician.
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Making Every Second Count – What We Can Do As Patients
Let’s face it, the good old days when you could schmooze with your doctor are long gone. But there are ways for patients to make every second count during brief office visits.
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Never Enough Time for Patient Care — What Can We Do?
Doctors and patients spend an average of about seven minutes together during an office visit. Patients often leave with more questions than answers, and the result is just bad care. Co-Editor-in-Chief Charlie Smith recommends a participatory solution to the problem.
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Participatory Medicine: Must You Be Rich to Participate?
Participatory medicine requires patients who take an active role in their health care and providers who have time to listen and work together in a partnership with patients. We fear that this movement may be leaving too many people behind.
Read MoreCommentary, Vol. 3, 2011
The Rewards of Being a Participatory Health Care Provider
The author gives the provider’s perspective on the story of a woman who became an engaged advocate for her two disabled sisters, and touches on some of the principle tenets of participatory medicine that guided their work together.
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Medication Adherence: More than Reminders
Focusing on reminders alone ignores the many other factors that contribute to nonadherence, improper use, and potentially harmful results. Better patient-provider communication is crucial to solving these problems.
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A Skydiver Jumps, and an Online Community Exults
A cancer patient shares a joyful story with her online support group and is surprised to learn how much it means to her fellow members.
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My 8-Point Participatory Philosophy: What Makes Me a Participatory Patient
The author reflects on the eight attributes that make up her personal definition of a participatory patient.
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Why Can’t We Protect Doctors Who Put Patients First?
A reader expresses his frustration over a system that condemns doctors who try to humanize medicine through social media.
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Sharks, Bees, and Health Privacy Paranoia
The issue that the e-patient community should be focusing on, in regard to health information exchange, is accuracy. Inaccurate health data hurts people far more frequently and significantly than privacy violations.
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Welcome New Co-Editors Joe and Terry Graedon
The Journal welcomes new “consumer” Co-Editors Joe and Terry Graedon.
Read MoreCommentary, Vol. 3, 2011
Who Gets to Define Quality?
After three years of looking at US health care, trying to figure out why it refuses to improve, I have a humble but impatient suggestion: When we talk about quality, we should only include measures that patients agree define quality.
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Health Care: A Human Rights and Economic Justice Issue
It ultimately falls to us, the patients, to frame health care as a human right and matter of economic justice, alongside national security, public education, and disaster relief.
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A Participatory Medicine Journey
It can be hard to be a vigilant participatory patient. It can be fraught with emotions and fear of repercussion. But it’s harder to be in the dark.
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The Importance of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the Participatory Movement
To the Editor: Alternative methods are a significant and important support to healing and, I think, should definitely be included in JoPM’s agenda.
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All
I have worked for more than 30 years as an Urgent Care/Emergency physician, and found that an unstable ER cardiac patient is looking for a different interaction than a patient with chronic issues or health concerns working with a primary care provider.
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Letter: Developing a Positive Patient-Provider Relationship
I would like to elaborate on Mr. Scott’s points about development of a positive relationship between patients and health care providers. Just as health care providers are accused of possessing an edge of arrogance, patients sometimes possess the same; it’s a two-way street.
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Response to “The Term ‘Patient’ May Describe Me…But It Does Not Define Me.”
A round of applause, please, for Michael Scott’s recent commentary. What struck me immediately was that this is something that is not confined to participatory medicine; society needs this seismic shift in relation to everything.
Read MoreLetters, Vol. 2, 2010
Response to “Evidence that Engagement Does Make a Difference”
Why do patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) opt out of surgery as a treatment option? Having been there with my wife, who survived NSCLC, (Stage 4; re-staged to Stage 2 after chemo), I can offer several reasons based upon real-life experience.
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