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Case study: Brain surgery

April 25, 2017 By Susannah Fox 36 Comments

Plastic models of the human brain sit on shelves

We have a “last mile” problem in patient communities. In the first post of this series, I asked for general advice about finding your people — the peers who could give you advice about your health condition and answer even your most secret questions. Now I’d like to focus on how someone would approach getting […]

Filed Under: patient networks, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: Brain Tumor, case study, peer-to-peer healthcare, surgery

What can surgeons learn from patients?

September 22, 2010 By Susannah Fox 32 Comments

I’m going to be on a panel at the American College of Surgeons 96th Annual Clinical Congress on October 5 in Washington, DC. The session title is pretty provocative: To Tweet or Become Extinct?: Why Surgeons Need to Understand Social Networking and my part of it uses the “e” word that I recently tried to […]

Filed Under: pts as teachers Tagged With: Alice Tolbert Coombs, American College of Surgeons, Catherine deVries, Howard Luks, KevinMD, participatory medicine, Social Networking, surgery

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