{"id":6661,"date":"2010-08-05T10:06:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T15:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2025-04-27T15:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T19:14:52","slug":"blowing-your-mind-with-doc-toms-seven-laws-of-self-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2010\/08\/blowing-your-mind-with-doc-toms-seven-laws-of-self-care.html","title":{"rendered":"Blowing your mind with Doc Tom&#8217;s seven laws of self care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers know that our founder, &#8220;Doc Tom&#8221; Ferguson, was an absolute visionary who saw that patients have a much bigger role in their own health than most people realize &#8211; at least in our culture.\u00a0 The white paper at top right of this site is the culmination of his life&#8217;s thinking.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6811\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/07\/Doc-Tom-Mother-Earth-News-1985.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6811\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6811 \" style=\"margin-right: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/07\/Doc-Tom-Mother-Earth-News-1985.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Doc Tom&#8221; Ferguson &#8211; 1985<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Through some obsessive Googling, I ran across an <em>early <\/em>bit of Tom&#8217;s writing, an article (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120718004112\/http:\/\/www.motherearthnews.com:80\/Natural-Health\/1985-07-01\/Medical-Self-Care.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wayback Machine archive<\/a>) in <em>Mother Earth News<\/em> about Medical Self Care, the journal he started. And here are the &#8220;seven laws of self care&#8221; he saw.<\/p>\n<p>In 1985.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The First Law:<\/strong> You are <em>already<\/em> your own doctor. &#8230;Research shows that people provide their own illness care between 80 and 98% of the time&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Second Law:<\/strong> Lay people could do even more for themselves if they had better access to currently available health tools, skills, support, and information. &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Third Law:<\/strong> Our most powerful health resources are our spouses, families, friends, social networks, and communities. &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fourth Law:<\/strong> Health is not the absence of disease. There is a continuum of wellness-illness states. Prevention means focusing on health concerns and behaviors while you are still on the wellness side of the spectrum, rather than waiting to act only when disease or disability occurs. &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fifth Law:<\/strong> What&#8217;s best for your health depends \u2014at least in part\u2014on your belief system. Health is a part of culture, and different people are products of different cultures. It has been well established that the remedies people believe in are much more effective for them. &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sixth Law:<\/strong> The principal goal of a health care system should be to help people take care of themselves&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Seventh Law:<\/strong> Health is a regenerative function. Your body is like the soil: If properly cared for over a long period of time, it can replenish itself and provide a bounty beyond imagining. But if ignored, depleted, and exploited, it will soon lose its ability to sustain life. &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That was a quarter century ago, and I&#8217;m sure that at the time some of it sounded wiggy, too much left-over Woodstock in the water. Well, today we have a lot more research, and science has figured out things that were unknown then. For instance, re our belief systems, in his superb book <em>The Anatomy of Hope<\/em> Jerome Groopman MD describes (<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ZmP1q4xFxYUC&amp;pg=PT188&amp;lpg=PT188&amp;dq=groopman+naloxone+placebo&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=Z85YvrxSEm&amp;sig=qG9ftLqw2dyktZr-cwkdGttN7I8&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=6mpbTK_kBsGC8gavrb39Ag&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Google Books<\/a>) how Naloxone, an opiate blocker, also blocks the placebo effect.<\/p>\n<p>Most mind-blowing, to me, is the Second Law: &#8220;Lay people could do even more for themselves if they had better access to currently available health tools, skills, support, and information. &#8221; That was 1985, folks &#8211; it&#8217;s easy to see why <em>his <\/em>mind was blown when the Web came along in 1994. Less than a year later he created his famous &#8220;triangle slides,&#8221; (see <a href=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/archives\/2008\/07\/steal-these-slides.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steal These Slides<\/a>), which showed how the Web would turn healthcare on its head.<\/p>\n<p>For us who try to anticipate the future, it&#8217;s a thrill to get a glimpse of a real visionary&#8217;s vision. Love it!<\/p>\n<p>p.s. 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