Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The overuse of the word "participatory"

Here’s a 2 minutes video from Kru Research (lobal think tank focused on "empowered patients") showing that the age of "participatory medicine" has begun.

I'm wondering if they can call this change on applied medicine "participatory" - they are not designing anything new and was there a lot of 'collaboration' with the patient? Offering websites that allow patients to inform themselves doesn't create consensus.

see video

Maybe it should be called: empower the patient to be able to read up on what they have been told by the doctor, but not necessarily understood or forgotten.

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