breast cancer bootcamp
At the BCC annual conference yesterday, one of the speakers, Dr. David Spiegel, mentioned that patients have much less anxiety if they take time at the […]
PhD Ponderings
Critical health literacy, statistics, and treatment decisions
I was asked to choose between ACT chemotherapy and TC chemotherapy. Both were shown to be as effective, so the decision was mine. In making […]
Is it critical if you don’t also question the value?
Thanks to Marie’s weekly round-up, I was lead to a post on Critical Health Literacy by the Breast Cancer Consortium. Initially, I really liked that […]
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: […]
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 […]