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Medical Self-Care: The Doc Tom interview in Mother Earth News

by e-Patient Dave | Aug 12, 2010

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...

Next history lesson: Doc Tom (and the Graedons) in the way-back machine

by e-Patient Dave | Aug 10, 2010

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...

Blowing your mind with Doc Tom’s seven laws of self care

by e-Patient Dave | Aug 5, 2010

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...

Why Victor Montori joined the Society for Participatory Medicine

by e-Patient Dave | Aug 3, 2010

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...

Why Mark Boguski joined the Society for Participatory Medicine

by e-Patient Dave | Jul 25, 2010

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 –...

Health Data is Useful… if it Informs Conversations

by Gilles Frydman | Apr 12, 2010

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...