Patients Engage

The last few years, my family and friends have been hit by a spate of health scares – brain tumour, cancer, stroke, heart attack. Each time, I would try to find out as much as I could about the conditions and treatments on the internet, so I could be there for them, armed with the right information. And while the internet gave me a lot of information, it threw up as many questions in my mind. I wanted to hear from people who had tried out a specific treatment – what were the side effects, how did they deal with it, had they learnt something that could help another… I visited online forums but found that often they did not reflect the Asian perspective. And so grew the idea of PatientsEngage – a space where people in similar circumstances can share information and learn from each other.