In other words, patients can and should stop being the passive “sick” and actively engage to pressure clinicians, researchers, and drug developers to adapt or perish. Democratized medicine represents the fullest flowering of the biomedical information revolution.
换句话说，病人可以也应该不在只充当被动的“患者”，而是积极参与，给医生、研究者和药物研发者不适应就淘汰的压力。民主化的医疗代表着生物医学革命最灿烂的结果。没有什么比公民病患积极参与管理其自身健康更值得追求的未来目标了。