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A Citizen’s Response Corps for Digital Health

A Citizen’s Response Corps for Digital Health

Editor’s note: In his new book, The Long Haul – Solving the Puzzle of the Pandemic’s Long Haulers and How They Are Changing Healthcare Forever, journalist and patient Ryan Prior depicts the courage of patients with Long COVID who were the first to name,...
A Romanticised History of SPM

A Romanticised History of SPM

As I was volunteering for SPM, it took years to learn its history and understand where we are, how the Society got created, and why it is what it is. This is not a historical well-documented history of SPM, it’s my imperfect interpretation of its history.  Doc Tom...
Conservators

Conservators

My painting teacher, Wes Sherman, calls himself a conservator. He shares paintings, pictures, and tidbits of art history with special attention to artists that inspire him. I learned so much from a year of tidbits shared on Instagram.  As I was driving back from the...
Doc Tom Awardees Announced at SPM2018 Conference

Doc Tom Awardees Announced at SPM2018 Conference

On October 17th, the Society enjoyed their 2nd conference in Boston. Filling a larger room than last year, attendees – in person and virtual – enjoyed an impressive lineup of speakers. The passion in the room was palpable. Much more to come on that. A...
Susannah Fox: Tom’s legacy #DocTom10

Susannah Fox: Tom’s legacy #DocTom10

Next in our #DocTom10 series, which started here.  This is a blessing – the first post here in two years by Susannah Fox. More about this at the end of the post – for now, let’s get to the good stuff. She originally posted this as a comment on...

#DocTom10, post 3: The preface and the paradigm

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:...

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