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The who, what, when, where, and why of Cochrane

Society for Participatory Medicine

It came in handy as I was sifting through my decision tree during cancer treatment ten years ago, and as I’ve become more and more interested in killing off quackery and over-, under-, and mis-treatment in medicine in my work as a citizen science activist and ground-level health policy wonk.

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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. Red Hot Chilli Pipers at the Colloquium | image credit: Simon Williams Photography.