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Wow! How? In-your-face Expertise

September 5, 2024 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Wow! How? Health

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 […]

Filed Under: Networkers, peer-to-peer health care, Seekers, Solvers Tagged With: ACT-UP, chronic pain, cluster headache, HIV/AIDS, Joanna Kempner, Long Covid, National Breast Cancer Coalition, Peter Staley, psychedelics, Steven Epstein, TAG, Wow! How? Health

Whose needs are not met?

September 8, 2021 By Susannah Fox 19 Comments

Questions marks painted on pavement

For years I tried to find ways to explain the particular challenges facing people with undiagnosed and rare health conditions. I decided to create a visualization showing the wide spectrum of people’s health needs and I’d like some feedback on it. Imagine a horizontal line. At the far left side are the people whose needs […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: ALS, Alzheimers, chronic pain, cystic fibrosis, eating disorders, LongCovid, Matthew Trowbridge, ME/CFS, menopause, MIT Press, myalgic encephalomyelitis, peer health innovation, Rare Disease

Weekend update

January 17, 2015 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

Susannah Fox's Weekend Update - credit: Andre Blackman

Last Saturday I posted a round-up of what caught my eye during the week and my friend Andre Blackman (@mindofandre) created this awesome graphic: Thus encouraged, here’s another round of what I favorited on Twitter this week: Nancy Stein (@SeniorityMatter) shared an opinion piece by Rob Lowe about long-term care planning. He’s promoting his partnership […]

Filed Under: key people, social media Tagged With: chronic pain, cystic fibrosis, Duchenne, long-term care, may I suggest, Open Access, Quantified Self, wearables

Health Education vs. Outcomes–Susannah Fox

June 28, 2007 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

The Pew Internet Project has found that the internet has a significant impact on decisions about which school to attend, but it does not play a big role in other “major life moments.” Is there something similar in health care? Are there conditions and diseases which are more likely to yield to an e-patient’s ability to change the outcome? Is it enough that e-patients are more informed and feel empowered by information, or should we expect more?

Filed Under: reforming hc Tagged With: cancer, chronic pain, e-patient, patient networks, pregnancy

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