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A Romanticised History of SPM

Society for Participatory Medicine

“Doc Tom” Ferguson (Wikipedia) envisioned health care as an equal partnership between e-patients and health professionals and systems that support them. A true visionary, less than a year after the Mozilla browser arrived he published a pair of slides that showed how “information age healthcare” would turn medicine on its head.

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Breaking the Cycle of Financial Toxicity

GlobalMed

A distress common to Americans with serious or chronic diseases, financial toxicity can diminish treatment outcomes and impact physical and mental health. Consider these findings: A white paper by Family Reach and Xcenda found that cancer patients were 2.65 The Impact of Financial Stress.