{"id":16921,"date":"2014-12-29T10:16:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T15:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=16921"},"modified":"2014-12-29T10:19:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T15:19:18","slug":"for-the-year-of-doing-dont-be-a-nail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2014\/12\/for-the-year-of-doing-dont-be-a-nail.html","title":{"rendered":"For the #MedX &#8220;year of doing&#8221;: &#8220;Don&#8217;t be a nail&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/12\/MedX-purpledoing.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16922\" src=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/12\/MedX-purpledoing.png\" alt=\"Medicine X &quot;Year of doing&quot; graphic\" width=\"190\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a>Our movement seems to be entering a turning point, and today <a href=\"http:\/\/runningahospital.blogspot.com\/2014\/12\/dont-be-nail-just-because-your-doctor.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Levy&#8217;s blog<\/a> had a great example.<\/p>\n<p>The change is embodied by the 2015 theme of our e-patient conference buddies at <a href=\"http:\/\/medicinex.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Medicine X<\/a>: &#8220;This is the year of doing.&#8221; In my view this means two things: bringing it from\u00a0concepts into specific actions everyone should do, and bringing it to the grass roots &#8211; the people you meet in the supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: the MedX logo shown here is not related to Paul&#8217;s post &#8211; they&#8217;re two separate examples of this shift, neither of which is formally connected to SPM &#8211; but maybe we should be! The point of this post is that our great big &#8220;school of fish&#8221; seems to be making a big right turn.)<\/p>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s post today is a great example of how an empowered \/ thinking e-patient thinks and acts, as opposed to what an unthinking patient would do. In <a href=\"http:\/\/runningahospital.blogspot.com\/2014\/12\/dont-be-nail-just-because-your-doctor.html\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t be a nail just because your doctor&#8217;s a hammer<\/a>, he shares a friend&#8217;s story. Quick excerpt:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Toddler was &#8220;failing to thrive.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Famous specialist recommended endoscopy, which required putting the child under anesthesia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parent asked &#8220;What will you do if you find a problem?&#8221;<\/strong> &lt;=The thinking, participatory parent!<\/li>\n<li>Doc said &#8220;Give her an antacid prescription&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parent thought, and asked if the antacid might have risks<\/strong> (in other words, do we\u00a0<em>need\u00a0<\/em>this procedure??) (Every anesthesia has risks, and a hospital stay would be required.)<\/li>\n<li>Doc said no risks, so the <strong>parent said no thanks to the procedure and just asked for the antacid.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s more to the story &#8211; see Paul&#8217;s post. Bottom line, today the daughter is thriving and in college. :)<\/p>\n<p>So, one e-patient takeaway for &#8220;the year of doing&#8221;:\u00a0<strong>Don&#8217;t be a nail\u00a0just because your doc&#8217;s a hammer.<\/strong> Hammers are good but you don&#8217;t\u00a0<em>always\u00a0<\/em>need one, every time you\u00a0<em>might\u00a0<\/em>use one.<\/p>\n<h3>More\u00a0&#8220;year of doing&#8221; examples:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Earlier this month at Brown University several of us had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epatientdave.com\/2014\/12\/02\/activate-your-super-patient-powers-public-event-free-at-brown-next-monday\/\" target=\"_blank\">a &#8220;SuperPatient&#8221; event<\/a>, open to the public, where three patients (Kerri Sparling of SixUntilMe, Pat Mastors of Patient Voice Institute, and I) described their own process of awakening and becoming activated. 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