“I want to be clear: not all patient communities are great, any more th...” — Dave deBronkart Quote

“I want to be clear: not all patient communities are great, any more than online communities of any sort. But when a good one gets going, boy is it sweet.”

“One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to be really smart, and you need to be taught in a carefully thought out, methodical sequence.”

“I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient.”

“I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities.”

“As we've seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities - and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.”