In November 2013, Medivizor started a campaign of Thanks, donating funds to four organizations that do amazing amounts of good for people with breast, colon, prostate cancers and diabetes. One of those organizations was METAvivor. METAvivor’s Mission METAvivor’s mission is: METAvivor exists to sustain hope for those living with metastatic breast...
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Why do patients blog? Why do they reveal personal information and medical experiences on the Internet? 1) To Share Information Annette McKinnon, author of ‘Here’s Your Gold Watch, Rheutired,’ started her blog “to inform people about things I learned that seem obvious to me now, but were hard to learn.” Carolyn Thomas, author of “My Heart...
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A recent Pew Research Center survey indicates that in just 3 years the number of adults caring for an adult or child with serious illness has grown from 30% in 2010 to 39% in 2013. Many of them are involved in e-caregiving. Yet, like so many, Catherine Rose didn’t know until 2010 that she had been an e-caregiver. “I always felt that I was really bossy...
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“Don’t be afraid of being bold and asking for the moon, it’s possible that people will say “YES!”-Catherine Rose Catherine Rose completed three degrees in 4 years at NC State, a BA in Spanish, BS in Mechanical Engineering and BS in Applied Math. Then she went to Stanford for a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, rounding that out with an MBA in...
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Anyone who has spent anytime in a hospital has heard the cacophony. Monitor alarms are actually messages to nurses and physicians; some are crisis, some warning, some just advisory alarms. Here’s one patient’s response… Annoying beeps, buzzers, tones and other noises make sleeping nearly impossible and even just resting difficult. But, patients...
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