This post is part of my series: Wow! How? Health. My concept is to tell a story that makes a reader say, “Wow! How did they accomplish this great health innovation?” The answer is often related to concepts I explore in my book, Rebel Health. Please let me know what you think or if you have […]
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Wow! How? In-your-face Expertise
This post is part of my LinkedIn series: Wow! How? Health. I welcome comments on either platform. Thirty-three years ago today, on September 5, 1991, activists unfurled a giant, inflatable condom over a U.S. Senator’s house. Don’t believe me? Watch a 30-second news clip or a 5-minute documentary about the action. It was a splashy way […]
Wow! How? Patient Memoirs
In his book, The Long Haul, Ryan Prior writes about his advocacy on behalf of people with ME/CFS: Though I had negotiated a fragile truce with the disease, my deeper fear was that it would eventually fully disable me, just as it had done for so many of my friends…At the edge of my every thought […]
Wow! How? Patient-led Biodesign
This post is part of my LinkedIn series: Wow! How? Health. Jules Sherman designs pediatric medical products, like a delayed cord-clamping cart and a special robe to help make neonatal skin-to-skin care safer. In 2016, she was called into a hospital room to observe a new mom using a device that Sherman had created to collect […]
Wow! How? Obesity Treatment
This post is part of my LinkedIn series: Wow! How? Health. Four in ten U.S. adults have obesity, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. That includes 9% of U.S. adults with severe obesity, which is defined as having a body mass index over 40. Shame and stigma compound their health problems. “You wear […]
Wow! How? Learning Health Networks
In 2007, pediatric gastroenterologists began tracking and sharing best practices as they cared for kids with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Their “all teach, all learn” philosophy invited patients and families to participate as key members of the care innovation teams. The results have been astonishing: 82% of patients in the ImproveCareNow network of 100+ […]
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