How does the lay public use the literature?

"Those unfamiliar with Participatory Medicine may find the website of the Journal of Participatory Medicine | Society for Participatory Medicine to be informative. Some of the initial contributors to this new OA journal [JoPM] are well-informed citizens, not scientists or physicians. See, for example, the contributions by Musa Mayer [bio] , a breast cancer survivor who is a “research advocate”, and by Gilles Frydman [bio], whose wife’s diagnosis of early-stage breast cancer in 1995 led him to become the activist who founded ACOR (the Association of Online Cancer Resources). ACOR has been very successful...."