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Biking in DC

July 31, 2013 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

"Alice, I will carry you inside of me, always - Mommy" written on a bicycle tire as a memorial to Alice Swanson, killed by a truck 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 […]

Filed Under: general Tagged With: active transportation, bicycling, Ted Eytan

How I choose which conferences to attend

April 25, 2013 By Susannah Fox 39 Comments

Stanford Medicine X stage

I wrote this as a comment last year in response to a question about why Medicine X was so magical. I’m elevating it to a post thanks to encouragement from E-patient Dave and because I’d love to hear from other people about how they choose events to attend. 5 criteria I consider when I receive […]

Filed Under: general, public Q&A Tagged With: BJ Fogg, conferences, David Rosenman, Denise Silber, health 2.0, Health Foo, HealthCamp, Indu Subaiya, Larry Chu, Mark Scrimshire, Matthew Holt, Mayo Transform, patients included, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Stanford Medicine X, Stanford Mobile Health, Tedmed, Tim O'Reilly

Just the way you are

August 6, 2012 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

Olympic athletes

Who is an elite athlete? All of them.There are a dozen photos like this, captured in a book by Howard Schatz and Beverly Ornstein, which caught my eye thanks to this tweet: We are the shape we are because of how we use our bodies: Diversity in elite athlete body shape bit.ly/OmXy2B — Andrew & […]

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“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes…”

July 27, 2012 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Statue of Winston Churchill in Washington, DC

“…and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?” – Winston Churchill. I bike past this statue every day on the way to and from work and stopped the other day to read the plaque. One foot is on U.S. soil, the other on […]

Filed Under: general Tagged With: bicycling

For some people, it’s still 1994

December 8, 2011 By Susannah Fox 18 Comments

Here’s a question which inspired me today, received via email from Christie Silbajoris,  director of NC Health Info: My library is rethinking its provision of services to the public.  We’ve got a history of going beyond what the average academic health sciences library provides in this area but in this age of budget cuts (and […]

Filed Under: general, hc's problem list, policy issues, public Q&A, shared decision making

Peer-to-peer Healthcare at Medicine 2.0

September 23, 2011 By Susannah Fox 26 Comments

Painting of a woman and two children

This post was published in 2011 and the themes ring true today. Only the survey data is out of date. For updated technology adoption trends, follow @PewInternet or refer to their fact sheets. A 2018 national survey found that half of young adults seek peer health advice online.  I was honored to give the closing […]

Filed Under: general, peer-to-peer health care, trends & principles Tagged With: peer-to-peer healthcare, Pew Internet, Stanford Medicine X

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