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January 10, 2015 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

Susannah at the library

I hunkered down at the library this week, working on a couple of long-term projects. I kept one eye on Twitter, though, as I always do, and wanted to share what distracted — and inspired — me this week: Radiolab: Worth — what would you pay for another month of life? How about a year? […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, maternity, positive patterns, social media Tagged With: Amy Romano, Cluetrain Manifesto, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, diabetesmine, Facebook, Kerri Sparling, may I suggest, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Wendy Sue Swanson

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May 13, 2014 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

Grapefruit with telltale circle of an Epi-pen injection site

Food Allergy Awareness Week is May 11-17. I decided to honor it by writing my first public post about being a food-allergy mom. Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, aka @SeattleMamaDoc, is generously hosting it on her blog, where I hope it will reach many, many people. I’d love to hear what you think — about being […]

Filed Under: e-patient stories Tagged With: family, food allergy, Wendy Sue Swanson

On listening, as a tool

April 8, 2013 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

My friend Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, delivers a passionate argument for listening more than talking online and, in that way, seeing “where myth is being created” so she can better infuse her own communications with facts. I couldn’t agree more, so I’m adding it to my list of “participatory research” resources for my Stanford Medicine […]

Filed Under: net-friendly docs, participatory research Tagged With: participatory research, Wendy Sue Swanson

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 […]

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: #HeLa, Alex Howard, Andre Blackman, Brian Ahier, danah boyd, E-Patient Dave, Gilles Frydman, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Kent Bottles, Mark Hawker, Mothers with Cancer, Nejm, P.F. Anderson, Pew Internet, Stowe Boyd, Tim O'Reilly, Twitter, Wendy Sue Swanson

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