As Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients and research advocates, we remain hopeful that the whirlwind of research and translational studies which flood the pages of journals around the world will result […]
Patient and public perspectives
Sharon Roman: My doctors, my placebo effect
An excellent patient-doctor relationship is capable of doing much good, even when medicine no longer can […]
Anya de Iongh: Are patients and carers healthcare’s untapped workforce?
On Wednesday 31 January, the dark and cold weather was a contrast to the warmth, passion, and dynamism of the contributions to The BMJ’s first Twitter chat of 2018. 800 plus […]
Dawn P Richards: The patient as a person
We need to recognise individuals as more than simply a patient […]
Humanising birth: Does the language we use matter?
Language matters as a way of respecting women’s views and ensuring that they are empowered to make decisions […]
Elizabeth Jameson: “I wish my health provider knew…”
As a person living with the progressive illness of Multiple Sclerosis, I visit my waiting room often. This experience can be stressful and isolating not only for visitors who are […]
Jeremy Taylor: There are reasons for patients to welcome Hunt’s return to the Department of Health and Social Care
What, as patients, are we to make of the re-appointment of Jeremy Hunt, yet again, to the government’s health brief? […]
Kirsty Gadsby on delayed diagnosis: “I felt validated after years of feeling a fraud”
Listening to patients and thinking outside the box can make the difference between diagnosis and dismissal, says Kirsty Gadsby […]
Anya de Iongh: Patients need to be activated, but so do clinicians and the system
It has been three and half years since The King’s Fund published a report on Patient Activation, and since then patient activation is increasingly on people’s radars. Patient activation is […]
Annette McKinnon: Patients need equal access to information
I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in the days before the internet, so I had to rely on magazines and newspaper articles as a back-up to the sparse information that […]