Here’s a lesson I learn over and over again: Never assume knowledge. Don’t waste your time making a point if you are not sure your audience understands the context for it. Or, as the wise Andy Kohut used to say, “If they don’t get the premise, they won’t get the joke.” Last year I spoke […]
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Tracking the trackers
UPDATE: On August 12, I’ll moderate a discussion about prioritizing patient engagement and inclusion of patient-generated COVID-19 data in clinical registries. It is being offered free and open to the public. Read a preview post and register here for the webinar. Every day I see a new example of a survey or other tool to […]
Building an intake valve for new ideas
Imagine this: You and your colleagues know there are problems to be solved. You have resources to offer, such as funding, access to experts, and publicity. You are pretty sure there are people with great ideas out there, asking questions, defining the scope of the problems you care about, seeing things that you can’t see. […]
Pandemic problem-solving
The COVID19 pandemic is forcing everyone to learn new skills on the fly. Clinicians are teaching each other how to hotwire a ventilator to serve more than one patient. People are 3D printing spare parts for medical equipment and learning how to sew protective masks. Parents are sharing strategies for convincing their teenagers to stay home – and […]
Surviving a pandemic like an artist
Through her work as a film-maker, Maggie Whittum helps the rest of us make sense of this upside-down world we find ourselves in. And she reminds us that, unfortunately, this disorientation is familiar to people who survive stroke. Andrew Simonet, founder and director of Artists U, recently wrote an essay entitled, “This is What We […]
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