{"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. (It was great, but what we didn&#8217;t do is list some explicit &#8220;doings.&#8221; We should!<\/li>\n<li>Dutch friend and firestarter Lucien Engelen just posted on LinkedIn blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/5-things-ask-your-doctor-lucien-engelen\" target=\"_blank\">Five things\u00a0to ask your doctor<\/a>. (He&#8217;s not the first to do such a list but it&#8217;s a modern list, particularly e-patienty.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How about you? Got any specifics you think\u00a0<em>everyone\u00a0<\/em>should know, as simple as Paul&#8217;s?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our movement seems to be entering a turning point, and today Paul Levy&#8217;s blog had a great example. 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