Alan Greene emailed this dispatch from Italy: While attending the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress, Cheryl and I met a delightful man from the Netherlands named Martien Lankester, executive director of Avalon. He is a physician, teacher, and organic farmer. He remarked that doctors should become more like teachers, teaching people about health rather than […]
Psych Central in Time’sTop 50–Susannah Fox
Congratulations to our own John Grohol, CEO & Publisher of Psych Central, which has just been named one of the 50 best websites by Time magazine! (Check out the rest of the list. I’m having fun reading up on food ingredients on Zeer.)
Information Therapy Conference–Susannah Fox
The Information Therapy conference just ended yesterday and my head is buzzing with a few favorite moments: 1) Josh Seidman‘s speech connecting our venue, the Newseum, to his mission by talking about the history of the U.S. press, mail system, and medicine: the Pony Express was viewed as so democratic that it was almost subversive. […]
Diabetes Reloaded
Apparently it is video week on e-patients.net! Amy Tenderich of DiabetesMine released this call-to-arms yesterday: But it’s not really a call-to-arms for e-patients.
E-patient Interview: Keith Schorsch–Susannah Fox
When Keith Schorsch began suffering from facial paralysis, fatigue, and severe muscular and skeletal pain, eleven doctors failed to identify the cause. Luckily, a friend recognized the symptoms as similar to what she had suffered when she had Lyme disease – and that’s the clue that saved Keith. Keith turned his experience into a consumer […]
Here Comes Everybody–Susannah Fox
Over on the Inkwell, our own Jon Lebkowsky is interviewing Clay Shirky, author of “Here Comes Everybody.” My favorite quote so far: “The places where experts matter and flourish are places where it is expertise, rather than authority (which is to say knowledge and experience, rather than imprimatur and access to public expression) that give […]
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