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A good death

January 19, 2018 By Susannah Fox 28 Comments

Black and white image of two hands, clasped. One person is wearing a hospital ID bracelet.

You might think, looking at the open tabs on my browser, that I’ve got death on my mind. And you would be right. My father passed away in December from melanoma. The end was about as peaceful as we could have hoped for, but it was still hard to watch. I spent most of what […]

Filed Under: end of life, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: cancer, end of life, family, Family Caregivers

This Thanksgiving, engage with grace

November 20, 2017 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

The following is a repost from 2012, one of the first examples of what would become my “featured commenters” series: 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 […]

Filed Under: end of life, featured commenters Tagged With: Brian Ahier, Bryan Vartabedian, Carol Torgan, Engage with Grace, Eve Harris, Regina Holliday, Ted Eytan, Wendy Sue Swanson

Public Q&A: How to support an introvert in an increasingly connected world?

November 13, 2014 By Susannah Fox 31 Comments

All signs point to a social revolution in health. As I’ve put it, the internet gives us access not only to information, but also to each other. Crucial advice can come from a just-in-time someone-like-you as well as from a clinician. So what happens to people who are shy or introverted? If sharing and learning […]

Filed Under: e-pts resources, end of life, patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, public Q&A

“One person’s TMI is another person’s need-to-know.”

August 25, 2014 By Susannah Fox 15 Comments

too much information by mkorsakov on Flickr

– Meredith Gould, aptly summarizing a key discussion point for our upcoming panel, “Communicating the experience of illness in the digital age.” (TMI stands for “too much information.”) We are flipping the panel, posting ideas and sparking conversations in advance so that when we arrive at Stanford Medicine X, the on-stage event will be one more […]

Filed Under: end of life, patient networks, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: #medxsm, Colleen Young, flip teaching, Meredith Gould, Pamela Ressler, peer-to-peer healthcare, Stanford Medicine X

Hacking home health care

February 10, 2014 By Susannah Fox 57 Comments

King Arthur large baker's peel

We need to fix the “solved problems” crisis in home health care. Let me explain. At the start of Health Foo* in December, everyone introduced themselves in 6 words or less. Row by row, person by person, 100+ people talked in turn. In the back row, nearly the last to speak, Laura Baldwin stood and […]

Filed Under: end of life, key people, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: #InventHealth, Alzheimers, caregivers, Health Foo, home health care hacks, Invent Health, Moebius Syndrome

Engage With Grace

November 27, 2013 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

This Thanksgiving, I am hosting the guest post below, participating in the annual Engage With Grace blog rally, to encourage those who haven’t considered their end-of-life preferences start thinking about them, and asking those who have done it to consider how their decisions may have changed over time. It’s good food for thought. Wishing you […]

Filed Under: e-pts resources, end of life Tagged With: Engage with Grace

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