Jun 23, 2014 | Social Media
The star – it’s reminiscent of grade school when good work meant a star on your homework. Those stars were coveted, points of pride, purveyors of bragging rights. Or so I surmised. School wasn’t really my focus in those days, but my best friend Michelle had quite a...
Jun 16, 2014 | Public Medical Communication, Social Media
My father was a scientist and a physician. He was smart as hell and very fast (until he wasn’t, but that’s a different story…) My mother is also super smart but didn’t get into science until her 60s when she began volunteering at San Francisco’s very cool California...
Jun 12, 2014 | Aging, Public Medical Communication, Writing
In the last two days I have received several emails about WEAAD. Yup. WEAAD… My response: As it turned out, people were sending me these WEAAD emails because they want to publicize a worldwide (the “W) day devoted to an important cause that is right up my alley...
Jun 9, 2014 | Public Medical Communication, Writing
This was the question a writing-inclined youngdoctor (UCSF palliative care fellow @lauraekoehn) and I faced recently. She had never blogged and felt ambivalent despite encouragement from our local GeriPal bloggerati, Eric Widera and Alex Smith. I blogged when my book...
