Professional Documents
Culture Documents
with Information.
“e-Patient Dave” deBronkart
Co-Chair, Society for Participatory Medicine
dave@ePatientDave.com
“Your shoulder
will be fine …
but there’s
something
in your lung”
“Textbook”
Stage IV,
Grade 4
Renal Cell
Carcinoma
• Being in treatment
• What to expect in hospital and at home
• What the side effects are really like – first-hand.
Journal of
Participatory
Medicine
• Taking it
“from anecdote
to evidence”
• Peer reviewed for
and by providers,
patients, and all
• Open access (free)
• Co-Editors are a physician and lay editor/patient
Industrial-Age Medicine
Healthcare
before the
internet:
September
2009
Engaged patients can help.
We’re motivated.
Let us.
Help us.
Enable e-Patients
with Information.
“e-Patient Dave” deBronkart
Co-Chair, Society for Participatory Medicine
dave@ePatientDave.com