By bluerasberry on 2014-06-03
My mother had been sick for a long time, and especially sick for the past few weeks. About a month ago I talked to her and she told me that she was immediately going for surgery to have her gall bladder removed. She had not told me of problems previously, but upon asking about this, […]
Posted in health, Texas | Tagged conference, death, public health, surgery
By bluerasberry on 2013-09-17
The Preventing Overdiagnosis was held at Dartmouth from 10-12 September. Consumer Reports was a sponsor of the event, as was Australia’s Bond University and BMJ. I was scheduled to speak about Wikipedia and health. There is a concept in medical literature called “overutilization” which refers to overuse of medical resources. This includes overtreatment, which is […]
Posted in clinical research, health, research, rights, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Choosing Wisely, public health
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-23
I went to Boston to present on Friday 19 July at Lisa Gualtieri’s health communications class at Tufts University. It was called “5th Tufts Summer Institute on Digital Strategies for Health Communication“. I gave an overview of the health content on Wikipedia and suggested that anyone with a health message to share could share it […]
Posted in Boston, education, health, non-profit, presentation | Tagged classes, public health
By bluerasberry on 2009-01-13
I went to a meeting organized by the Washington Department of Health (DoH) to talk about proposed changes to the Washington Administrative Code (WAC). In Washington State (America) there is the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) which is a compilation of all the state laws in force. These laws were set in place at the […]
Posted in HIV, rights, Seattle | Tagged public health
By bluerasberry on 2008-10-20
I have been at my new job for three months now, full-time. I think that possibly I have put in more hours of non-self-employed work at this job than from every other job I have had put together. I talked to my dear Aunt Vicki a few weeks ago and somehow she had gotten word […]
Posted in education, health, Seattle, work | Tagged grades, insurance, public health, social status