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Nothing about me without me

Casey Quinlan — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:12:38 +0000

The last few weeks have been a cluster-dance of activity in the e-patient community. Actually, pretty much any week is a fast dance in the participatory medicine world, given the drive toward healthcare reform in the US. The loudest dance orchestra has tuned up around the controversy created when the American Hospital Association (AHA) posted [...]

Do not fear dragons

Casey Quinlan — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:25:28 +0000

I was born in one of the Chinese zodiac’s Years of the Dragon. I am a fire sign – Leo – in western astrology. I’m fierce, and I roar frequently. I have often been accused of being a fire-breathing dragon. Those who said that aimed at criticism. I took it as praise. #HAWMC Day 24 [...]

Geography = Health. Really.

Casey Quinlan — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:05:30 +0000

This is a direct theft. Of a post from my main blog on Mighty Casey Media. Some powerful geography=health interactive tools are also available on NPR’s Poisoned Places investigative report. Find out what your geography might be doing to you. After [readacted] years on the planet, I have the great good fortune to have a [...]

The things we forget

Casey Quinlan — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:19:25 +0000

This is one I forget frequently. Working on changing that …

Madlibs poems: way cool

Casey Quinlan — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:22:52 +0000

I have taken both of my #post #fail days for #HAWMC, so I gotta really slave to the grind thru the next 10 days. That said, today’s prompt involved going to Madlibs Poem generator, filling in the blanks (be prepared, there are many!), and hitting “go!”. I went. This was the result. I surrender I [...]

5 Dream Team dinner guests

Casey Quinlan — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:14:56 +0000

There are five people for whom I would walk over broken glass, if on the other side of said glass was a dinner table set for six, with them waiting for me. Here they are, in no particular order: Marie Curie My mother was a stone-cold science geek. One of her inspirations was Madame Curie, [...]

I learned about patient advocacy the hard way

Casey Quinlan — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:28:05 +0000

Well, maybe it wasn’t the hard way for *me*, but it was a hard lesson nonetheless. When I was in my early 20s, my maternal grandmother (the Admiral’s wife) had a serious health event that involved hospitalization, and fear that she was at death’s door. The cause turned out to be not heart failure, not [...]

Pin THIS!

Casey Quinlan — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:56:58 +0000

#HAWMC Day 16: Pinterest! Have a Pinterest page. Have yet to figger out its highest and best use, but today’s prompt tells me to create a board for my health focus and pin three things on it. Well, in typical over-achiever fashion, I’ve pinned four images to my brand spanking new Health Activism board: Why [...]

Got style? Why, yes I do …

Casey Quinlan — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:51:37 +0000

#HAWMC Day 15 – half-way home. Hallelujah. Maybe. Writing with style. That makes me think fondly of E.B. White’s Elements of Style, the first book about writing I ever read. I know that Bill Strunk co-authored EoS, but since E.B. also wrote Charlotte’s Web, he gets to mostly-solo when I’m in charge. My dad gave me [...]

The perfect day(s) …

Casey Quinlan — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:25:06 +0000

#HAWMC day 14 (almost half-way there!) – the prompt we’re given is “describe your ideal day – how would you spend your time? Who would be with you? Have you ever had this day? There are two versions. #1: perfect day, vacation version I wake up to early-morning light coming through the forward hatch on [...]