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Archives for November 2012

Hello world

November 29, 2012 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Tiny mantis larva peeks over the edge of an orange poppy flower

  Enjoy more amazing images from the National Geographic Photo Contest (nothing, but everything, to do with health and technology).

Filed Under: beauty and wonder

À la recherche du temps perdu

November 26, 2012 By Susannah Fox 5 Comments

8 line graphs showing growth of cell phone activities

When I saw this latest data set, I flashed on the phrase “À la recherche du temps perdu” which roughly translates as “In search of lost time” or “Remembrance of things past” (a seven-volume novel by Marcel Proust that I never did finish reading). Look how much time we have collectively “lost” and look at what […]

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: mobile, Pew Internet

“I’ll tell you what gloomy is…”

November 23, 2012 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

I want to continue the Engage with Grace blog rally by highlighting my favorite comment thread about it, from a 2010 post on e-patients.net. For me, this is what blogging is about — providing a public space for debate about ideas that matter to you. Treb wrote: I really think that a topic like end […]

Filed Under: end of life Tagged With: Engage with Grace

Engage with Grace

November 22, 2012 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

5 questions about end-of-life choices

A guest post from the Engage with Grace team… One of our favorite things we ever heard Steve Jobs say is… ‘If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.’ We love it for three reasons: It reminds all of us that living with intention is one […]

Filed Under: end of life Tagged With: Engage with Grace

“So many quiet heroes and heroines who live among us…”

November 21, 2012 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

– Zoe Brain, in a comment on the New York Times magazine story, The Hazards of Growing Up Painlessly, which garnered an extraordinary display of public ignorance and fellowship around rare conditions. My hope is that the reporter and editors read every comment and learned from the community peer review of the article.

Filed Under: e-patient stories Tagged With: New York Times, Rare Disease

Don’t immediately believe the mhealth hype – Dave Clifford

November 15, 2012 By Susannah Fox 12 Comments

Don't believe the hype machine

Carrying on the tradition of taking an epic comment and publishing it as a stand-alone post, I’m very happy to feature Dave Clifford’s take on the new mobile health data: I care very deeply about numbers and measuring what people are doing in reality versus expectations. I believe that polling is a useful quantitative tool […]

Filed Under: featured commenters, trends & principles Tagged With: Dave Clifford, mobile, Mobile Health

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