Susannah Fox

I help people navigate health and technology.

beauty and wonder

Conference organizers:
Steal these ideas!

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On February 21, Larry Chu, MD, announced that Stanford Medicine X would take a hiatus. He shared the following story: Eight years ago, I posted a tweet announcing my intention to launch my first conference at Stanford. I received a variety of responses, but the one that remains the most poignant is the one I received from […]

Thread by thread

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I’m honoring the contributions of my community colleagues over the years by pulling out some of their best comments and quotes. Julia M. Brennan, in response to Textiles are technology (2015): The intersection of woven dyed hand made textiles and fast evolving technologies (high tech fabric production as well as IT communications) today is a […]

Regina Holliday brings beauty and wonder to health care

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If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you may have noticed that the new design requires a big “featured image” at the top of every post. It’s an interesting creative challenge to illustrate some of the themes I bring out — peer health advice, medical errors, health data… Luckily, Regina Holliday generously posts gorgeous […]

The sky is now her limit

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Check out this gem of a postcard from 1920, entitled: The sky is now her limit. The detail I wish was true: that we had achieved wage equality before women gained political appointments. What is true:  The ratio of female notaries to males is 3 to 1 in some states. And yes, if you can’t read […]

Beauty and wonder

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This type of iris, named for my grandmother, blooms in both the spring and the fall. When they do, I greet them by name and think about her indomitable spirit. From nearly the beginning of writing this blog I’ve had a category tagged beauty and wonder. I was re-reading a few of those posts this morning, […]

What persists

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“…The third little pig met a man with a load of bricks, and said: ‘Please, man, give me those bricks to build a house with.’ So the man gave him the bricks, and he built his house with them. So the wolf came, as he did to the other little pigs, and said: ‘Little pig, […]