Susannah Fox, Author at SPM Blog

What if health care…?

by Susannah Fox | Feb 9, 2013

For over a year I’ve been the accidental manager of a community garden. All I did — I swear — is point out an open plot of land and people started pitching in, planting, asking friends to join them. All of a sudden we’d transformed a bare patch...

Health Online 2013: survey data as vital sign

by Susannah Fox | Jan 15, 2013

Survey data is a snapshot of a population, a moment captured in numbers, like vital signs: height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, etc. People build trend lines and watch for changes, shifting strategies as they make educated guesses about what’s going on....

“As She Lay Dying” – a son calls on the health system to involve patients and families in improving safety

by Susannah Fox | Dec 3, 2012

Warning: this doesn’t end well. Not for anyone in the story. Unless it changes you, as it did me. Jonathan Welch, MD, teaches at Harvard Medical School and practices in the ER at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. But, as is often the case in life, the...

The Waiting Room

by Susannah Fox | Dec 1, 2012

Check out the documentary film, The Waiting Room, set in the emergency department of Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. I wrote a post about a screening and discussion in DC last night and I’m hoping to get a report from tonight’s Cambridge, MA, event. If...