Dr. Tom Ferguson has passed away. A man I’ve known for many years, I met Tom back in the early 1990′s because we were both thinking about how the Internet was changing the roles of doctor and patient. …
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Dr. Greene’s rememberances of Tom Ferguson may be found here:
http://drgreene.blogs.com/drgreenecom/2006/04/the_two_toms.html
Gilles Frydman’s tribute to Dr. Tom Ferguson is also available.
I too was a friend of Tom’s. We met in the late 90′s when I was working on an initiative at Intel to help promote empowered patients use of information technology. Tom was a remarkable person, and touched the lives of many while he was with us. I too will remember his wit and that magical spark he had.
I hope the good works he began will continue.
Tom, I will miss you dearly. I hope when my times comes, we will meet again.
I have known Tom Ferguson all my life. We met as children when he and his family lived across the street from mine in Coos Bay, Oregon. Our mothers became close friends and he and his brother and sister and my sisters and I grew up together, then lost touch when my parents divorced and my mother moved us back to Texas. I learnt later that Tom had moved to Austin: I looked him up and saw him maybe twice in those years, then lost touch again, our lives going in such different directions. But I have such fond memories of him and his family, he was always a warm, funny, smart guy with a wicked sense of humor and a really, really wonderful, kind heart. His mother, Helen, his dad, Wallace (“Pick”), he and his sister and brother were such an integral part of my early days. It always gave me a soft comfort to know that I had grown up with such a special person, making it all the greater a shock today to learn of his death; I had imagined him invulnerable. I was actually looking him up to find out how to contact his mother, so I could help my mother reconnect with her. Funny how life goes.
Tom, I will always remember our carefree summers at “Ferg-Berg” or staying in migrant shacks, picking strawberries in the Oregon berry fields. (I hope you got over your aversion to strawberries – it took about 20 years but I can finally eat them again!) Those days touched my entire life and helped make me the grounded person I am today.
Farewell, dear friend, your memory is inseparable from my childhood days, and I feel a huge part of those days has been cut away; and just that much more vulnerable in my own mortality, knowing you are gone. My heartfelt condolences to the loved ones you left behind.
Whoop-de-doo for Allegheny!!!
Barbara Zoe Bagby Alexander
Rosanky, Texas