Tom's Personal Health Clinic

Here's what "Tom's Personal Clinic" looks like so far.



Let me know if you want to know more or would like to see this setup in person! Feel free to pass this along to others who might be interested.

So far, here's what I can do....
Urine/Saliva pH,

10 panel urine test,

Average Blood Pressure,

Phonocardiograph,

Endoscope/Otoscope, etc.

Added WebCam November 2009 - Ready for TeleMedicine


Internet access to Symptom Checkers and other Health Information.

Send my test results to my Healthcare Professional, or anyone else, if I want to - Telemedicine.


All this was done for under $500, including $250 for a used computer. The details of how this was made is at one of my other blogs - Ideas for Products or Inventions.


Click here to see the report I took to the doctor. My doctor was impressed!


Future activities include additional DIY tests, "Super Symptom Checker", Telemedicine, and Interfacing with the Doctor Within.


Good Luck on your own DIY Healthcare Journey!

Flow Chart of Tom's Healthcare Reform Plan

There are quite a few Health Care Reform Flow Charts being discussed in the news these days.

Essentially, I got tired of others determining my health care future. Thus, I made "my own healthcare reform flow chart", as shown below.

1) Tom own his own health care and maintenance ----> 2) Tom diagnose and treat himself first ----> 3) Tom go to Healthcare Professional, only as needed.

Step 1 is similar to my taking ownership and maintaining of a car, house, etc. This involves me eating right, exercising, etc.

Step 2 is difficult right now since there’s not much information or many tools for DIY healthcare for consumers. However, I’m persistent. I found some resources and tools to start with. What I can’t find in tools, I invent. 90% of my maladies I can fix myself or they go away by themselves, given time. I'm hoping in the future we have more information and better tools to diagnose and treat ourselves.

Step 3 is knowing when I NEED to go to the doctor, and doing it. Plus this involves following the doctor’s directions, if it makes sense to me.

I like my plan since it fits me and it will fit into whatever healthcare plan the government decides on. I'm not so dependent on health insurance now, whether it be from my job or Medicare. It saves me money and I’m in great health. It also feels great to decide my own health care future.

I'm doing this health care experiment to help myself, but I'm thinking my experiences might help others. Maybe my efforts can help others help themselves – to give them options they might not think they have.

Good Luck on your own DIY Healthcare Journey!

Home Endoscope

Hello All - I've added a Home Endoscope to "Tom's Personal Clinic" and it works great! I can use it as an Otoscope, for closeups of skin conditions, and for other endoscope functions. I've taken pictures to my doctor and he was impressed. We both could see telemedicine opportunities for this.

You can see pictures of this here.

I bought it on eBay for about $60 using the words home endoscope. I'm still learning how to use it but thought I'd get this out to you via this Blog, in case you haven't heard of it.

Good Luck on your own DIY Healthcare Journey!