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2024 SPM Update from Board Chair Mary Hennings

2024 SPM Update from Board Chair Mary Hennings

Our goal for the Society for Participatory Medicine in 2023 was to expand awareness of participatory medicine ([PM)] and SPM post-Covid and build new insights into the value of PM. We developed two curriculum modules, one on participatory medicine and the other on...

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Hey ChatGPT, what’s Participatory Medicine?

Hey ChatGPT, what’s Participatory Medicine?

I'm working on lots of things about generative AI in healthcare, because among other things, "GenAI" is incredibly empowering and liberating for e-patients. For kicks I decided to ask GPT-4 what it thinks participatory medicine is. Here's its answer. Couldn't have...

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ChatGPT summarized my OpenNotes. It’s so much more usable!

ChatGPT summarized my OpenNotes. It’s so much more usable!

  I had an idea last week and just tried it. ChatGPT is awesome at summarizing things, but could it handle medical notes? They're complicated. It worked! I took the visit notes from my last doctor appointment (the whole big, long, detailed thing) and asked...

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Team Building In The Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Team Building In The Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Editor’s note: In her new book, Communicating Through a Pandemic: A Chronicle of Experiences, Lessons Learned, and a Vision for the Future, Amelia Burke-Garcia, PhD, MA explores the many and varied roles that communication has played over the course of this pandemic,...

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Building for Success: How Good Clinicians Can Empower Patients

Building for Success: How Good Clinicians Can Empower Patients

Editor’s note: Ibrahim Rashid contracted Long COVID more than two years ago. The experience is propelling his patient advocacy and entrepreneurship, as co-founder of the digital health company Strong Haulers. In this excerpt from his new book, Strong Hauler: Learning...

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