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Gilles Frydman

Artists of health care

September 4, 2018 By Susannah Fox 39 Comments

Naked Barbie doll with six sets of pliers clamped to her left leg

I have found that we can anticipate the future by paying attention to artists. Like hackers, artists bend tools until they break and ask, “Why CAN’T I do that?” They push the edges of any field they find themselves in. Autodesk, which makes software for people who make things, created the Pier 9 Residency Program to […]

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Twitter: filter, suggestion box, idea machine, window

October 18, 2010 By Susannah Fox 20 Comments

On Friday I dashed off this tweet: PhD student just asked me which journals I read to stay up to date on health + tech. My answer: Twitter. It was classic RT bait and indeed it was echoed dozens of times by fellow Twitter geeks — more than any other tweet I’ve written.  But I […]

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Health Geek Tip: Abstracts are ads. Read full studies when you can.–Susannah Fox

June 16, 2010 By Susannah Fox 16 Comments

Ivan Oransky, executive editor of Reuters Health, provided excellent evidence yesterday regarding the need to look past abstracts of journal articles if accuracy matters to you:

Filed Under: research issues Tagged With: cancer, Gary Schwitzer, Gilles Frydman, HealthNewsReview, Ivan Oransky, national cancer institute, Wikipedia

Superheroes and rock stars at the Institute of Medicine

October 14, 2009 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

Update: National Cancer Policy Forum published a book based on the workshop, A Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice: A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care, which you can buy, read online for free, or download as a PDF. The discussion portion of this panel was captured in a short video. ___________________ The Institute of Medicine’s recent […]

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