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Medical Self-Care: The Doc Tom interview in Mother Earth News
Next in our series of posts about our founder Doc Tom. Previous time capsules: 1980 and 1985. Come, ye economics buffs and algebra fans; get out your pencils and solve for x, n, and XX: Whatever else the year 19XX is remembered for, it will — without a doubt — go down in history as [...]
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Next history lesson: Doc Tom (and the Graedons) in the way-back machine
Last Friday we dug up our founder Doc Tom’s Seven Laws of Self-Care, from 1985. At one time Tom served as medical editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, the Woodstock-era empowerment resource whose subtitle was “Access to Tools.” At left (click to enlarge) is the cover of the original 1968 edition – just as I [...]
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Blowing your mind with Doc Tom’s seven laws of self care
Regular readers know that our founder, “Doc Tom” Ferguson, was an absolute visionary who saw that patients have a much bigger role in their own health than most people realize – at least in our culture. The white paper at top right of this site is the culmination of his life’s thinking. Through some obsessive [...]
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Why Victor Montori joined the Society for Participatory Medicine
Next in our “Why I Joined” series is Victor Montori, MD of the Mayo Clinic. My wife and I met him in May; he’s high energy, with boundless optimism. And as you’ll see, he feels very strongly about patients being at the center of healthcare. The civil rights movement has not finished its job. In [...]
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Why Mark Boguski joined the Society for Participatory Medicine
Next in our series, Mark Boguski, MD, PhD is both a personal and a corporate member, as co-founder with Dr. Alan Littleford of ResoundingHealth. If you’d like to submit your own reason, write to me. (This is not an “invitation only” series – that wouldn’t be like us! When a member submits, we put it [...]
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Health Data is Useful… if it Informs Conversations
Dr. Roni Zeiger, MD is currently Chief Health Strategist at Google where he has helped create and lead Google Health. He continues to see patients on occasional evenings and weekends at a local urgent care center. Roni earned his MD at Stanford and completed his internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco. [...]
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A Patient-Centric Definition of Participatory Medicine
Participatory Medicine is a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in which providers encourage and value them as full partners. This new definition devised by the board of the Society of Participatory Medicine provides clarity for the movement. It is a paradigmatic shift and [...]
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Video message to medical students learning Medicine 2.0
Last week we posted a request from Dr. Bertalan Meskó for video messages from e-patients to his “Medicine 2.0″ course. Here’s my submission. (This is my first “vlog” (video blog) so the quality’s not great – like everything “e,” it’ll improve with experience.) He’ll welcome further submissions for viewing anytime. Post them to YouTube with [...]
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Ahem. :-)
I am about to punk my well-known doctor. :–) Me being me, I just had my annual physical. Great visit and all that. Yesterday I got a letter about my lab results. My cholesterol and weight are trending unfavorably, so the good doctor said “you need to take lifestyle changes more seriously to reduce your [...]
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Making Healthcare Better through Participatory Medicine
There’s new validation that participatory medicine is an idea whose time has come: the co-chairs of the Society for Participatory Medicine (my primary physician Dr. Danny Sands and I) are on this year’s list of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better, an annual feature of HealthLeaders magazine. We want to acknowledge some of the pioneers who [...]
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