I was a co-presenter (with Olaf Kraus de Camargo, Liane Simon, and Gabriel Ronen) at the European Academy of Childhood Disability Conference in Tbilisi, Georgia last week on “ICF in Clinical Practice” – I submitted my part by video and am sharing it here. Continue Reading
Patient engagement is a vision of patients as empowered, valued participants and institutions as eager learners, prepared to listen and act. Whether those beliefs are rooted in something real hardly matters. Continue Reading
Patient Engagement is difficult to write about because it’s poorly defined and usually discussed in broad strokes. This post attempts to identify separate themes so that I might have a way to clarify and focus my thinking, moving forward. Continue Reading
The established process for determining legitimacy—peer review followed by opaque machinations of editorial discretion—showed that (my) patient experience and analysis was simply not good enough, not legitimate, and in fact should be more appropriately assigned to the patient ghetto called “Opinion.” Continue Reading
“It surprises me deeply that there is no oversight governing the involvement of patients and families in advisory roles in research, when the protection afforded them as research subjects is paramount.” Continue Reading
If healthcare really cared, we would be much further along by now. Why are we still talking about what ‘meaningful’ looks like? Why are patient experts still not paid for their expertise? Why have we not developed a body of research to quantify the value of patient engagement? Continue Reading
I had brunch with Lisa the other day. We hadn’t met in person before but we’d shared not a few laughs and commiserations online. Lisa is a fellow ‘disability mom’ – shorthand I use around the house when Carsten asks,… Continue Reading
What is clinical bioethics? In my graduate bioethics program, we considered a range of healthcare topics in the context of our society’s ever-evolving moral and technological landscape – topics such as autonomy and consent, justice, equity, the allocation of resources, pandemics,… Continue Reading
I am so pleased to share this book – it represents a year of my own involvement plus a year or two of defining the project and soliciting chapters (by the other editors, before I came on board). The book… Continue Reading
A patient’s reporting of symptoms or telling of their story to a physician, however compassionate that physician may be, is not the same thing as the patient’s full and valued participation in not only identifying and framing their own health issues, but also problem-solving and goal-setting. Continue Reading
