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Weekend update

January 17, 2015 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

Susannah Fox's Weekend Update - credit: Andre Blackman

Last Saturday I posted a round-up of what caught my eye during the week and my friend Andre Blackman (@mindofandre) created this awesome graphic: Thus encouraged, here’s another round of what I favorited on Twitter this week: Nancy Stein (@SeniorityMatter) shared an opinion piece by Rob Lowe about long-term care planning. He’s promoting his partnership […]

Filed Under: key people, social media Tagged With: chronic pain, cystic fibrosis, Duchenne, long-term care, may I suggest, Open Access, Quantified Self, wearables

What I’m reading, listening to, admiring…

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

Let yourself in on your own secrets

December 31, 2014 By Susannah Fox 12 Comments

I respect secrets. When my grandmother died at age 96 and a half, her final words were: “Erase my email.” Why? I don’t need to know. And she is not someone you want to cross (present tense — her spirit is still here with me, urging me to live a big life.) But I am […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder Tagged With: Alexandra Drane, Frank Warren, Meghan Daum, PostSecret, Unmentionables

Thank you, Sean Parker

December 22, 2014 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Today: When I was your age there were no food allergies. Someday: When I was your age there were food allergies.

I have a new essay up on Medium: Thank you, Sean Parker. I tell why I’m so grateful to him for his gift to food-allergy research and l share a little bit about why I don’t read comments on food-allergy stories. Also: please check out more cartoons by Tiffany Glass Ferreira — she is awesome:

Filed Under: key people, positive patterns Tagged With: food allergy

Imagining better outcomes for T1D with #MakeHealth

December 18, 2014 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

Glucose meter displaying the number 85

This post originally appeared on Diabetes Mine. Forty-five makers, thinkers, designers and doers gathered in Cincinnati for a two-day meeting to kick off “Phase Zero” of a new initiative to imagine a new system of care for people living with Type 1 diabetes (T1D). The best way I can describe the group is that everyone […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, net-friendly docs, pt/doc co-care, pts as teachers Tagged With: #makehealth, C3N Project, diabetes, diabetesmine, Joyce Lee, T1D Exchange, Type 1 Diabetes

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