I love call-in radio shows, listening to them and (dream come true) being a guest on them.* Listeners never fail to amaze me with their insights and ideas.

Today I was on the Kojo Nnamdi Show’s Tech Tuesday with Rahul Parikh, MD, to discuss “Dot Com v. MD: Health Advice & Resources Online.” We filled the hour with a wide-ranging discussion and there were apparently enough phone calls, emails, and tweets to fill another hour. We gave shout-outs to the National Library of Medicine, the Medical Library Association, and the VA’s Blue Button project, to name just a few. Callers gave tips about health apps they liked and how to handle dismissive doctors.

The hour went by so fast thanks to Rahul & Kojo & the audience making it such a fantastic conversation. What would you say to a caller who asked for recommendations for how to use the internet to navigate the maze of health care? If you could put any 3 people on a show, just to hear what they had to say to each other, who would it be?

* I have to link to the best call-in show I’ve yet been part of: A 2011 Talk of the Nation show with Pat Furlong, a rare-disease mom-turned-power-house-advocate.

“…and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?” – Winston Churchill.

I bike past this statue every day on the way to and from work and stopped the other day to read the plaque. One foot is on U.S. soil, the other on the grounds of the British Embassy. Check out his Wikiquote page for more inspiration on the eve of a very British Olympics.

Five years ago this month I wrote my first blog post for e-patients.net: Chemotherapy Fog Is No Longer Ignored as Illusion. Back then the blog was a sandbox, a way for those who knew and loved Tom Ferguson to continue the conversations we’d had with him, on the blog he’d launched just before he died.

Five years on, I’m gathering up the 200+ posts I’ve written and porting them over to my own site. I’ll still contribute to e-patients.net, but I realized there’s a value to having a “room of one’s own” online. So here I am.