{"id":6637,"date":"2010-07-18T15:51:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T20:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=6637"},"modified":"2010-07-18T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T22:26:09","slug":"laugh-sing-and-eat-like-a-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2010\/07\/laugh-sing-and-eat-like-a-pig.html","title":{"rendered":"Laugh, Sing, and Eat Like a Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-bottom:40px;\">e-Patient Dave&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/laughsingbook.com\" target=\"_blank\">Laugh, Sing, and Eat like a Pig<\/a>, is out! Mark Graban captures the health geek excitement:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"481\" height=\"293\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aa_UHVn2yF4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top:10px;\">The best writers make you feel like you&#8217;re spending time with a wise friend &#8212; add some tears and laughs and you have Dave&#8217;s book. I wasn&#8217;t there for his whole journey, so I&#8217;m learning new things by reading about the scary, early days of diagnosis and treatment of his Stage IV cancer. And I love the chapter-by-chapter summary of Tom Ferguson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acor.org\/epatientswiki\/index.php\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">white paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tom posted only once to this blog &#8212; his blog &#8212; before he died in 2006 and it was a tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/archives\/2006\/03\/the-voice-of-the-patient.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Voice of the Patient<\/a>. When<a href=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/about-e-patientsnet\" target=\"_blank\"> a group of us<\/a> decided to complete the white paper and continue the blog in Tom&#8217;s honor, Dave was not yet part of the group. 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