Health literacy as a patients job
An article on Simplifying patient communication can lead to better health outcomes by Eve Becker, crossed my stream today. I was struck by this statement: […]
PhD Ponderings
Blogs, Bikes, and Breast Cancer
Many of my readers know that in a previous life – 9 years ago now – my husband and I took 16-months off and road […]
Empathy and suffering #digped
Before vacation I attended digital pedagogy lab institute (DPLI) in Fredericksburg Virginia. I haven’t been able to write a summary blog post for the experience. […]
Verisimilitude at #digped
Validity “means that a work seeks verisimilitude; it evokes in readers a feeling that the experience described is lifelike, believable, and possible, a feeling that […]
Qualitative researchers – interrater reliability help wanted
Friends, I’m looking for a few people family with qualitative research coding to do some interrater reliability for my dissertation. What this would involve is […]
Survivor of the journey
I struggle a little with my choice of words – in part because others are so challenged by it. I’ve talked about the battle metaphor […]
Care perspective versus Illness perspective
I have been thinking a lot lately about perspectives – struggling really – trying to figure out where my thoughts and ideas fit within the […]
Not fighting a battle – the closure to the narrative is death itself
Recently, I read a book chapter by Arthur Frank (2009) titled “The necessity and dangers of illness narratives, especially at the end of life”. It […]
Giving voice and face to the illness experience
The other day I had the opportunity to have a conversation with the lovely Bonni Stachowiak for her podcast Teaching in Higher Ed. In the podcast, […]
Remission society and mourning my fantasy future
I apologies to those who read all my blogs, as I am cross posting this. I’d love to hear answers from the various readers of my […]