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Podcasts: What are you listening to?

January 28, 2019 By Susannah Fox 34 Comments

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What podcasts are you listening to? I’m on a kick to listen to a wider range this year and I’d love to get and share some suggestions. Quick note: It is way too difficult to find and subscribe to podcasts. Some have websites, most don’t. You have to search for them on iTunes, Stitcher, or […]

Filed Under: key people Tagged With: a16z, Anil Sethi, BackStory, Bill Thomas, Bryan Vartabedian, Ciitizen, Dan Diamond, David Shaywitz, Esther Perel, How to be a girl, Joe Kvedar, Kara Swisher, Leslie Kernisan, Lisa Suennen, Marlo Mack, npr, pandemic, podcasts, Preet Bharara, Sam Sanders, Slow Burn, The Moth, transgender, Uncivil

“They come from the same community”

June 13, 2017 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Long fingers circling a wrist

I often share links on Twitter, but without the context I’d love to give to each one. A few recent stories of the power of peer connection around health and well-being: Washington Post: Butterfly babies : A rare disease makes these young girls’ skin break and peel at the slightest touch, like a butterfly’s wings As […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: Flickr, India, mental health, npr, peer counseling, Rare Disease, rare diseases, Washington Post, Youtube

Participatory medicine and health data rights on NPR

November 16, 2009 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

NPR’s Morning Edition story, “Patients Turn to Online Buddies for Help Healing,” combined research and real-life examples, participatory medicine and health data rights. Much of what I said during my interview with Joseph Shapiro is based on what I’ve written and read here on e-patients.net, so, first, thank you. I’ve already started answering questions on […]

Filed Under: general, health data Tagged With: Answering Questions, Assertions, Buddies, Case Mix, Collective Decisions, Health Care Decisions, Health Care Revolution, Health Data, health information, Health Professionals, Health Searches, Health Systems, John Horrigan, Joseph Shapiro, Medicine, Medicine And Health, Mediums, npr, Offline Sources, Pareto Principle, Partnership, Person Accounts, Pew Research Center, Real Health, Tom Ferguson, Twitter, Walks Of Life

Talk of the Nation–Susannah Fox

December 14, 2007 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

I had the pleasure of being a guest on NPR’s Talk of the Nation yesterday, along with Dr. Scott Haig and Dr. Ted Eytan, to talk about “Do-It-Yourself Diagnosis on the Web.” (For a substantive summary of the show, check out Josh Seidman’s recap.) The producers were smart to kick things off with Dr. Haig’s […]

Filed Under: reforming hc Tagged With: care, doctors, e-patient, Google, healthcare, npr

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