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Waiting with open arms

December 4, 2017 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Wave Group Photo by Michael Cannon on Flickr

I’m honoring the contributions of my community colleagues over the years by pulling out some of their best comments and quotes. Emily Kramer-Golinkoff, in response to “A field guide to The Diagnosis Difference” (2013): My advice to a person or parent of a child newly diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis would be: “I can only imagine […]

Filed Under: featured commenters, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: cystic fibrosis, Emily Kramer-Golinkoff, Stanford Medicine X

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

Thread by thread

November 13, 2017 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Marcel Breuer's tapestry, Floating. The tapestry’s abstract forms are carefully structured: Breuer arranged squares in varying sizes and colors in an overall square field, resulting in a well-balanced composition.

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 […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, featured commenters Tagged With: GSA, Hhs, maker movement, textiles

Medicine’s cultural “caution tape”

November 6, 2017 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

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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. Jack Penner, in response to “His doctors were stumped. Then he took over” (2017): In terms of how can we empower patient to become active participants, one thing that comes to mind is lowering […]

Filed Under: featured commenters, net-friendly docs, patient networks, social media Tagged With: participatory medicine, Patient Community, peer-to-peer healthcare

Why people participate in clinical trials: altruism and access

October 30, 2017 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Painting of a red landscape with people climbing a dark arrow toward the sky

I’m honoring the contributions of my community colleagues over the years by pulling out some of their best comments and quotes.  Rahlyn Gossen, in response to Peer-to-peer healthcare: Crazy, crazy, crazy, obvious (2011):  By far the biggest hurdle to clinical trials recruitment is awareness. The public is generally not aware and doctors are not informing […]

Filed Under: featured commenters Tagged With: altruism, Clinical Trial Data, Clinical Trials, EHR, Regina Holliday

How health systems are like newspapers

October 23, 2017 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Press Room - Topeka Capital Journal - Marion Doss on Flickr

I’m honoring the contributions of my community colleagues over the years by pulling out some of their best comments and quotes.  Dave Chase, in response to Recognizing the value of data (2014): As a confessed congenital optimist, I’ll give my optimistic view of how positive developments are little-noticed, as they were with epic shifts that […]

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