In September I will be attending one of my favourite conferences for the third time: Stanford Medicine X! It is the most patient-inclusive conference I have ever come across and always full of people generously sharing their stories relating to medicine and health.
This year I will participate in a panel discussion titled “Going from researching patients to patients researchers” together with the wonderful Susannah Fox, the inspiring entrepreneur/patient Michael Seres and the amazing Eli Pollard. In the panel, we want to discuss how patients’ opinions, knowledge, and experiences can make the whole research process better; from formulating the research questions, to designing, recruiting, and implementing the research as well as disseminating the research results.
We also want to discuss how patients who manage our diseases every day are actually testing hypothesis more or less consciously. Can the knowledge arising from that be captured and disseminated in a structured way?
To start us off in preparing for the panel discussion this September, we want to hear from you! Could you tell us about your experiences?
What do you (or your loved one) do to manage your disease/condition/health challenge other than what you are told by healthcare to do?
Please comment below!
Tomorrow on 2nd of June, I will be shar