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This is one in a series of articles, running between Thanksgiving and January, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you?, Hidden in plain sight: dying and homelessness, and Be […] If you are sent to live on the streets, it is for most people the same as being sent, without a mouth guard or helmet, into a boxing ring. A ring where the gong never sounds and there’s no rope to mark the place where someone could take a swing and blow out your eye […] Restaurant reviewer? Who, ME? The whole restaurant “evaluation” (yes, I did in fact just make air quotes with my fingers) is overwhelming to me – the analyzing, assessing, comparing, deciphering flavors, and parsing panache – that’s way outside my job description. Heck, I can scan a lab report faster than a menu. In fact, the […] At the Health 2.0 conference I met and interviewed two people starting a new service called RingADoc. The interview is below and the service is just starting up in California. What do you think? Ready to sign up and give a doctor a call? Share your take in the comments section. Are you a […] Last week at the Health 2.0 conference I got the chance to talk with Sean Nolan of Microsoft about the work the company is doing in information technology for healthcare and electronic medical records and other related fields. Microsoft has created a technology called HealthVault and you can find more about it here: http://healthvault.blob.core.windows.net/docs/BlueButton_Final.wmv. And […] I’m en route to Haiti at the moment. Here are a sample of tweets (twitter posts) from the bus between Port-Au-Prince and Gonaives where we will be providing medical care in a remote mountain location that is housing refugees from the earthquake but that hasn’t had medical care at all yet. Just drove past tiny, […] |
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