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An Easy Way we can Help Encourage Healthcare Conferences to Include Patients & Advocates

Society for Participatory Medicine

I have attended hundreds of conferences: patient experience, patient education, health tech, health literacy, shared decision making — and the best part has always been meeting other advocates, patients, and family caregivers. I think again of ePatient Dave’s refrain: “Let Patients Help!”. The cost is simply too high. P < 001).

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Doc Tom Awardees Announced at SPM2018 Conference

Society for Participatory Medicine

His spirt and work led to the creation of the Society , though his peers & followers, ePatient Scholars. The first award for contribution to SPM was a shared award – to Dave “ePatient Dave” DeBronkart and Dr. Danny Sands. Many impressive names were nominated for both awards by SPM members.

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#CochraneForAll + #BeyondTheRoom = #PatientsIncluded on blast

Society for Participatory Medicine

I won the big platinum #PatientsIncluded ring (much better than brass) this year with an opportunity to attend the Cochrane Colloquium , the global health science and health services research meeting that happens somewhere on Planet Earth every year.