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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

What I learned going down an emergency slide

November 8, 2014 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Airplane wing with blue sky above and clouds below

Escaping from an airplane is a lot like navigating health care — you need help from the people around you I can hardly sit through the standard pre-flight safety demonstrations anymore. It all seems like a farce now that I know the truth: Your survival of an emergency may depend more on the people around you than […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: peer-to-peer healthcare

Why sharing is the future of healthcare

October 31, 2014 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

An excerpt of a post on the Iodine blog: Imagine living with a condition so rare that every time you see a new doctor they confess to Googling it outside the exam room door.

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: cdc, Iodine, patientslikeme, Pew Research Center

Food Allergy 101: hold the blah-blah-blah

August 26, 2014 By Susannah Fox 23 Comments

Two Auvi-Q epinephrine injectors - photo by Susannah Fox

UPDATE: FARE has created an excellent 15-minute online class: How to Save a Life: Recognizing and Responding to Anaphylaxis Original post: In a fit of housecleaning last spring, I recycled all my old food-allergy training files since they were 5+ years old. I figured it wouldn’t be very hard to find a good one-pager on […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, pts as teachers Tagged With: food allergy, peer-to-peer healthcare

“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

Break my heart, make me change

August 1, 2014 By Susannah Fox 19 Comments

Arrows connect Give and Take; a bracket shows that Care encompasses both.

Take a deep breath and then look at this data about HIV in the U.S.: I have seen these numbers before, but never laid out so clearly and so beautifully. Thank you, Jeff Guo of the Washington Post, for breaking my heart. Thank you, because I think we all need our hearts broken anew from […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, trends & principles Tagged With: #whatifhc, AIDS.gov, Bedsider, Black Lives Matter, HIV/AIDS, Kicesie Drew, peer-to-peer healthcare, Pew Research Center, Vic Strecher

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