{"id":18993,"date":"2016-08-08T08:52:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T12:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=18993"},"modified":"2016-08-08T17:05:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:05:13","slug":"e-patients-as-journal-authors-sean-ahrens-self-experiment-published-in-a-major-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2016\/08\/e-patients-as-journal-authors-sean-ahrens-self-experiment-published-in-a-major-journal.html","title":{"rendered":"e-Patients as journal authors: Sean Ahrens self-experiment published in a major journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n We’d love to start a list of other patient-authored papers and posters – let us know in the comments! We know of Dana M. Lewis & Scott Leibrand’s poster about #OpenAPS<\/a> in June – who else??<\/em><\/p>\n We’ve written before about e-patient Sean Ahrens and the Crohnology community<\/a> he started. \u00a0In my view the most important post of the series was four years ago:\u00a0Crossing a threshold: the e-Patient movement enters wave 2<\/a>. That post linked to an article in\u00a0Fast Company\u00a0<\/em>(a business magazine!) about Sean.<\/p>\n Now, could this be wave 3? We’re starting to see e-patients as authors\u00a0in medical journals.\u00a0That\u00a0<\/em>is a culture change, folks.<\/p>\n In this case it’s not just an opinion piece – Sean devised and conducted an experiment on himself! Here’s his Facebook post the other day on it:<\/p>\n So I think this is kind of big news: I just got published (in print) in a major medical journal, the American Journal of Gastroenterology (AJG)!<\/p>\n I submitted a 1500-word scientific report of the self-tracking experiment I did on myself taking pig whipworm (an intestinal parasite) for my Crohn\u2019s in 2010. For this experiment, I had mail-ordered the pig whipworm from the internet, shipped via Thailand in small vials. Yeah I know that sounds kinda crazy. I did this experiment from March – August 2010, intentionally ingesting TSO (Trichuris Suis Ova<\/em>), a non-FDA approved treatment, every two weeks, and recorded my changing symptoms in a digital tracker I built for myself.<\/span><\/p>\n
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