%0 Journal Article
%T From P0 to P6 medicine, a model of highly participatory, narrative, interactive, and ¡°augmented¡± medicine: some considerations on Salvatore Iaconesi¡¯s clinical story
%A Bragazzi NL
%J Patient Preference and Adherence
%D 2013
%I Dove Medical Press
%X Nicola Luigi Bragazzi School of Public Health, Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), Genoa, Italy Abstract: Salvatore Iaconesi was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor. He decided to share his clinical records not only with doctors but with everybody who wishes to find him a cure. ¡°Because cure is not unique,¡± he emphasizes ¡°there are cures for the body and cures for the soul, and everyone, from a painter to a musician, can find me a cure. Please, feel free to take my clinical history for example and let it become a game, a video, a music, a picture, whatever you like.¡± The emblematic hallmark of the changing times, Salvatore Iaconesi¡¯s case is an example of how many profound revolutions and steps medicine has undertaken during the past few centuries. Stemming from a form of remote medical paternalism and arriving at the concept of a therapeutic alliance, medicine nowadays faces challenges and opportunities at a level before unforeseeable and unimaginable. The new concept of P6 medicine (personalized, predictive, preventive, participatory, psychocognitive, and public) is discussed, together with its profound implications. Keywords: cancer, narrative medicine, paternalistic medicine, P4 medicine, P5 medicine
%U http://www.dovepress.com/from-p0-to-p6-medicine-a-model-of-highly-participatory-narrative-inter-a12862