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I went to needle exchange to hang out. You may be asking yourself what a soccer mom from the burbs is doing perched on a folding chair in the parking garage of 101 Grove on a dark November night, surrounded by syringes. I was there as a guest observer because I’m working on a series […] I have a new best friend. She’s cool and smooth and adaptable. Kind of like a Dragon-Tattooed-urbanite who can deal with any situation, from a tweaking guest at a rave, to the post-modern gut-angst of intellectuals. She’s slow to rile too – give her a nudge and all she does is gurgle at you. She’s […] 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 […] More from Haiti, arrival in Gonaives and two days of care, clinics and life. docgurley Passed a leprechaun-green field, full of donkeys with a handful of goats tiptoeing among them, Caribbean blue ocean all around 10 Oct docgurley We’re here! In 2008, 48,000 people in Gonaives lost their homes to 10 vertical ft of hurricane […] 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 […] Pulling into Gonaives on our bone-rattling Pumpkin- bus was like entering a maze. We turned down dirt roads walled by concrete, single lanes where we could see a home rising block by block just above the wall. All I could think was whether this home, one day, would collapse on someone. The single-lane dirt road […] |
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