Read this quote from Owen Thomas’s piece about Jeff Bezos and his purchase of The Washington Post, but insert “health care” in place of “media”: In the tech world—the world where Bezos made his fortune—it’s taken for granted that one should use data about how people use a product to make that product better and […]
Resilience
The following essay appeared in The Washington Post magazine in a column that asks: “So much is contained in such small things. What holds meaning for you?” I wrote it as a tribute to my father’s resilience, which I hope to pass down to my children: I was 24 and still called Susy when my […]
Screen time of a different kind
Public Q&A: Is there data to help a public health campaign reach 12-17 year-olds?
Here’s a data request I can’t fulfill, so I’m sharing it in the hopes that our community may provide some help: We are going to do a general market campaign targeting at-risk youth and youth who have already experimented but don’t consider themselves [tobacco] users or smokers. We are also doing campaigns targeting multicultural youth, […]
Peer-to-peer health care is a slow idea that will change the world
2018 update: Watch a 10-minute video that captures the essentials of peer health advice. Someone recently asked me to name the most exciting innovation in health care today. I think he was hoping for a sexy technology tip, like an app that’s catching fire in the expert patient communities I follow. Nope. I’ve said it […]
Biking in DC
“I grew up biking in Europe,” the woman said after she cut across four lanes of traffic in downtown DC. I had caught up to her at a red light to tell her that she was lucky — cars had slammed on their brakes, some right next to me as I carefully pedaled in the […]
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