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#DocTom10, post 3: The preface and the paradigm

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 13, 2016

Third in our #DocTom10 series, which started here. Yesterday I asked that you download Ferguson’s white paper, the manifesto he was working on when he died unexpectedly, ten years ago tomorrow. Today we’ll look at the preface. The lost section:...

#DocTom10, post 2: Please download the White Paper / Libro Blanco

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 12, 2016

Yesterday, in Honoring the memory of “Doc Tom” Ferguson, ten years after his death, we started a series of posts to mark his untimely demise and look back on his work. As we noted, at his death he was working on a project funded by Robert Wood Johnson’s Pioneer...

Honoring the memory of “Doc Tom” Ferguson, ten years after his death

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 11, 2016

“Doc Tom” Ferguson, the source of our Society for Participatory Medicine, died unexpectedly ten years ago this week, April 14, 2006. In the coming days we’ll run a series of posts remembering his work and vision. Especially, we’re going to walk...

Participatory Medicine Grand Rounds

by Jon Lebkowsky | Oct 12, 2010

This is e-Patients.net’s first opportunity to host Grand Rounds, which is a collection of some of the medical blogosphere’s best writing over the last week. We asked bloggers to look at our sister website, the peer-reviewed Journal of Participatory...

Participatory Medicine around the world: the Seven Preliminary Conclusions reach India

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 26, 2009

A Google alert popped up today, saying that a participatory physician in India had cited this blog. Don’t we love it when social media let empowering information spread! It’s exactly what our founder “Doc Tom” predicted with his now-famous 1995...

The e-patient white paper: Seven Preliminary Conclusions

by e-Patient Dave | Jan 27, 2009

One year ago today I finished reading e-Patients: How they can help us heal healthcare, the e-patient white paper. It turned my head around because although I’d experienced excellent care in almost all ways, it showed that I as a patient have far more to...