{"id":21479,"date":"2019-11-23T14:55:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T19:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=21479"},"modified":"2019-11-23T14:55:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T19:55:59","slug":"a-romanticised-history-of-spm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2019\/11\/a-romanticised-history-of-spm.html","title":{"rendered":"A Romanticised History of SPM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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\u2019s my imperfect interpretation of its history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doc Tom Ferguson was a brilliant doctor with ideas ahead of his time. He had a productive career, wrote books and articles, but his ideas, that are still valid today, were hardly even recognized during his lifetime, and are still not widely adopted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDoc Tom\u201d Ferguson (Wikipedia) envisioned health care as an equal partnership between e-patients and health professionals and systems that support them. The medical editor of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Millennium-Whole-Earth-Catalog\/dp\/0062510592\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Millenium Whole Earth Catalog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (1994), he founded <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Medical Self-Care<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> magazine, wrote the visionary 1996 book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Health Online: How To Find Health Information, Support Groups, And Self Help Communities In Cyberspace<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and authored several papers in the BMJ, as early as 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A true visionary, less than a year after the Mozilla browser arrived he published <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2008\/07\/steal-these-slides.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a pair of slides<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that showed how \u201cinformation age healthcare\u201d would turn medicine on its head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Before Tom\u2019s untimely death in 2006, he was writing his manifesto, now known as <a href=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/e-patients-white-paper\/\">the White Paper<\/a>, in consultation with the group of advisers he dubbed the e-Patient Scholars Working Group. They finished the paper and published it a year later, and in 2009 formed our Society for Participatory Medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/about\/board-of-directors\/founders-circle\/\">https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/about\/board-of-directors\/founders-circle\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The e-Patient Scholars Working Group is an impressive group of people. Each of them has decades of experience researching and helping patients connect to each other. Among others we had:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Susannah Fox<\/strong> and Lee Rainie at the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pew Research Center\u2019s Internet &amp; American Life Project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> created the survey reports on e-patients and online health since 2000. After leaving The Pew Research Center,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/susannahfox.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Susannah <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">continued to support e-Patients and SPM in her roles at the RWJ Foundation, encouraging innovation at HHS and through speeches, consulting and subsequent research.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in 1995, <strong>Gilles Frydman<\/strong> founded ACOR (Association of Cancer Online Resources) as the first large-scale online social network for cancer patients and caregivers. ACOR morphed into the online community <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartpatients.com\/about\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smart Patients<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that continues to help patients with serious diagnoses connect to each other and share resources, research and emotional support.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1981, <strong>Joe and Terry Graedon<\/strong> launched <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplespharmacy.com\/about\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The People\u2019s Pharmacy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> public radio program to help people make informed decisions about their health. They subsequently launched the website.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1995 <strong>John Grohol<\/strong> launched <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Psych Central<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the Internet\u2019s largest and oldest independent mental health online resource. The website has been run by mental health professionals offering reliable, trusted information and over 250 support groups to individuals struggling with a problem in their lives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in 1998, <strong>Danny Sands<\/strong> figured that physicians will jump right on the email bandwagon to communicate to patients and within AMIA co-authored the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC61279\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guidelines for the Clinical Use of Electronic Mail with Patients<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Alan and Cheryl Greene<\/strong> launched the website <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drgreene.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">drgreene.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 1995 to answer practical questions from parents that couldn\u2019t be answered during office hours. It was the first physician website recognized by the AMA. Dr. Greene is still going strong and Alan Greene wrote a number of popular books and keeps helping parents.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Founders are meeting every year in February at Cook\u2019s Branch -a nature preserve Tom\u2019s family donated to the Texas state. They share ideas and their thinking. For \u201cyoung\u201d me, there\u2019s a level of magic involved in these meetings. I would love to be a fly on the wall there. As all magical things, I probably would discover these are just regular folks, but still&#8230; what awesome things they achieved in their lifetime!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doc Tom\u2019s family doted on and is still doting on SPM. I was amused to hear that SPM got a new $10,000 grant for their tenth year anniversary\u2026 it really feels like the organization is their grandchild and they help it grow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the Founders created the SPM, they did not imagine it to be a members\u2019 association.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As with Patients Like Me and other websites at the time, the user\/member forums were added by default &#8211; they came free with the websites. The SPM website most likely came with a Forum and, like me, people just started showing up, wanting to learn more about this smart, forward-thinking group.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SPM opened up to members, and it took a very long time to understand what the members wanted the organization to be. Member surveys were collected and interviews were organized. The mission, vision and strategic plan were refined year after year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For impatient patients like me, this seemingly took forever. Why couldn\u2019t they move faster? They are so smart, could they just help get healthcare better!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I started volunteering for SPM in my early 40s. The 40s are an awesome time of combined energy and competence. One can do so many things! I wanted to get the healthcare system changed and SPM was going to get us there. I felt that my calling was to organize the community around the smart people that led the Society. I got a load of network connections and I like to think that, for a while, I helped them connect to each other. I got them ready to engage in the vision of SPM.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the strategic plan was released, it was general and imprecise. It was wordy and non-actionable. We didn\u2019t have a clear direction. Year after year, we built it a bit further.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Change doesn\u2019t happen fast. SPM is an organization of smart people, and as all good things do, it takes years to mature. They take their time listening and a very long time deciding what to do next. As I get older, I start having more patience and more understanding of the slow nature of some endeavors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let\u2019s hope that the newest addition &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/manifesto\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a Manifesto<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8211; will be the beginning of creating change. A lot of other political and financial interests converge toward change in healthcare. Let\u2019s hope that SPM will be at the front of these changes pioneering a better healthcare system for our children.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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