We are pleased to announce the release of Patient Commando’s Whitepaper: On a New Frontier of Patient Engagement; Promoting Collaboration One Story at a Time.

Over the coming weeks we will post segments of our paper for our readers. This series aimes to provide a deeper understanding of Patient Commando’s position as a provider of patient story, narrative and experience.

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I am not a number, I am a free man!” Patrick McGoohan — as “The Prisoner” 1967 A secret agent is kidnapped to a mysterious, isolated village. Referred to as “Number 6”, he is subjected to psychological warfare to extract information from him and turn him into a compliant, docile, informant. His struggle against the many fantastic attempts to brainwash him is a gripping parallel to patients in an ever increasingly complex health care system.

To many patients, hospitals are like mysterious, isolated villages, with a foreign culture detached from their own experiences. From insurance numbers, to “take a number,” to room numbers, bed numbers, chart numbers, file  numbers, blood numbers and test numbers, our health care system [...] continue the story