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Mayo Transform

Medicine fails, patient is frustrated: Google

July 22, 2014 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

Medicine fails, patient is frustrated: Google - by Jessica Hagy

Jessica Hagy is one of my favorite social commentators, so I was thrilled to meet her in person at the 2010 Mayo Transform conference, curated by David Rosenman. Here is one of her cartoons from that event: I have shared the image on Twitter a few times, including today, when I wrote that I’d add […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, social media Tagged With: David Rosenman, Jessica Hagy, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Transform

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

“They never took his sock off”: a parable of patient empowerment, resourcefulness, and literacy–Susannah Fox

December 28, 2010 By Susannah Fox 26 Comments

Jessie Gruman’s Journal of Participatory Medicine commentary, “Evidence That Engagement Does Make a Difference,” reminded me of a talk delivered by Alice Tolbert Coombs, M.D.,  last September: As you listen to Dr. Coombs’s chilling story about a man who lost his foot because nobody ever took his sock off to examine it, please review Jessie’s […]

Filed Under: shared decision making, Why PM Tagged With: Alice Tolbert Coombs, Jessie Gruman, Journal of Participatory Medicine, Mayo Transform, participatory medicine, patientslikeme, Paul Wicks, Pew Internet

What is the ROI on love?–Susannah Fox

September 27, 2010 By Susannah Fox 13 Comments

Last week’s Mayo Transform symposium was a two-day excursion into the world of science, data, design, and the secret ingredient to health: love. Patch Adams, MD, kicked things off in grand style. If you’ve never seen him speak, treat yourself to a hit of his energy: In 1971, he and his compatriots opened a 24×7 […]

Filed Under: positive patterns, reforming hc Tagged With: CaringBridge, Centering Healthcare Institute, Centering Pregnancy, Cisco, Dean Ornish, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Transform, Michael Celender, Patch Adams, Sekou, Sharon Gibson, Sharon Schindler Rising, Sona Mehring, University of Pittsburgh

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