All about Inflammation with Dr. Natasha Punia
← back to blog inflammationautoimmunechronic-illnessmedical-educationpatient-literacy All about Inflammation with Dr. Natasha Punia Monday, 25 M
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On psychological safety, performance culture, chronic illness, AI, and the gap between what organizations believe is happening and what actually is.
← back to blog inflammationautoimmunechronic-illnessmedical-educationpatient-literacy All about Inflammation with Dr. Natasha Punia Monday, 25 M
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← back to blog chronic-painmigrainemindfulnesspatient-expertise The Mindful Migraine expert Thursday, 21 May 2026 There's a specific kind of c
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19 May 2026 Why disabled & chronically ill people are your best employees I built eight organisations from my bed. Not despite being disabled. Thr
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← back to blog mental-healthwellnesspatient-centered-carehealth-definition Redefining mental health with Vanessa Pott Monday, 18 May 2026 Ment
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My mother has cancer. I used a local AI model to read her oncology records in Hebrew, cross-reference treatment protocols, and ask the questions her doctors didn't have time for.
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15 May 2026 Mental health is the missing link in chronic illness Here's a thing that happens to chronically ill people that nobody talks about clea
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← back to blog mental-healthmajor-depressive-disorderlived-experiencepatient-advocacy Falk Schuster on living with Major Depressive Disorder Thu
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12 May 2026 What is patient experience data? Healthcare collects enormous amounts of data. Lab values. Medication adherence. Hospital readmission r
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← back to blog healthcare-systemsmedical-anthropologychronic-illnesssystem-failure The Medical Anthropologist Monday, 11 May 2026 There's a sp
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8 May 2026 We need more patient voices in MedTech MedTech is a strange world. Engineers build things. Investors fund them. Regulators approve them
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← back to blog patient-innovationmental-healthpolicylived-experienceglobal-mental-health Samah Atout on war and mental health Thursday, 7 May 20
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← back to blog spooniversitychronic-illnesspatient-educationbuildingconstraint-based-thinkinglaunch Spooniversity went live yesterday. Here is wh
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5 May 2026 How public policy can change the mental health space Policy is where good intentions go to become actionable, or where they go to die. T
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← back to blog patient-advocacyhealthcareguidepatient-empowermentmedical-literacy The Complete Pocket Guide to Medical Appointments Monday, 4 Ma
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The manifesto behind everything. Where the framework came from, what it actually means, and the moment I understood that the illness wasn't being treated because it hadn't been made speakable yet.
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The invisible energy tax of every action — not just the physical cost, but the social, professional, and emotional cost of living within severe limits.
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Not negligence. Structural failure. What actually happens inside the diagnostic process when a patient's symptoms don't fit the expected pattern.
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1 May 2026 Patient voices in Digital Health products There's a pattern in digital health that I've watched repeat itself for a decade. A company b
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← back to blog speakingcommunicationvoicedisabilitypresence The ABC of Public Speaking Thursday, 30 April 2026 I couldn't speak for years. No
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28 April 2026 The skills nobody taught me to name I want to name something that chronically ill people do every day and never put on a CV. You man
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← back to blog healthcare-communicationpatient-advocacyhealthcarecommunication The Little Book of Patient Communication Monday, 27 April 2026
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24 April 2026 Machines handle information. Humans handle transformation. It took me almost a decade to get diagnosed. It took ChatGPT ten seconds.
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← back to blog aihealthcarehealthcare-technologypatient-advocacymedical-ethics The Algorithm Will See You Now Thursday, 23 April 2026 AI is co
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21 April 2026 From medic to patient For nine years, I ran toward emergencies. Israeli Red Cross, 1998 to 2006. Eight years of showing up when ever
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← back to blog healthcarepatient-experiencehealthcare-systemspatient-voice What Do Patients Want? Monday, 20 April 2026 Healthcare runs focus
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17 April 2026 Patient engagement is not empowerment Healthcare has discovered patient engagement. There are surveys now. Advisory boards. Focus gr
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← back to blog memoirchronic-illnessworkidentityconstraint-based-thinking Revolution From My Bed Thursday, 16 April 2026 Seven years in bed. T
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14 April 2026 The spoonie tax There's a tax you pay when you're chronically ill. It's not on your payslip. It's not deductible. And nobody who does
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← back to blog potspacingchronic-illnessspoon-theoryenergy-management Good days are dangerous Monday, 13 April 2026 The most dangerous thing t
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← back to blog I'm Launching One Track Early. Here's Why I'm Uneasy About It. Friday, 10 April 2026 I wasn't planning to do this yet. The pla
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10 April 2026 Women in healthcare deserve better When a woman enters a doctor's office, she hopes to be seen as a human being. She is rarely seen
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← back to blog chronic-illnesslonelinessisolationmental-health The isolated island of illness Thursday, 9 April 2026 When chronic illness stri
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7 April 2026 Buy a nice mattress and grow old with dignity A doctor told me to buy a nice mattress and grow old with dignity. I was 25. He wasn't
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← back to blog chronic-illnesspotsconstraint-based-thinkinglessonsidentity 7 lessons I learned from 7 years in bed Monday, 6 April 2026 Seven
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5 April 2026 Spooniversity is open. There is a specific kind of grief that comes from watching your career dissolve while you're too sick to stop i
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3 April 2026 Thirty-three doctors Thirty-three doctors. I counted. Not at the time — at the time I was too busy trying not to die. But afterwards,
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← back to blog potsrehabilitationchronic-illnessconstraint-based-thinking Just get up. Thursday, 2 April 2026 "Just get up." That's what the
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The real challenges of building a patient-side community platform — what you discover when you try to build infrastructure for people too exhausted to use bad tools.
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Why Chronically exists — and what 'honest writing about chronic illness' means when most illness media is built around uplift and resolution.
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The worst crashes come after the best days. Why feeling good is a trap for people with chronic illness — and what the world gets wrong about recovery.
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Working alone with chronic illness is both harder and better than anyone said. The loneliness is real. The freedom is real. Both things, simultaneously, all the time.
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Not advice. Not inspiration. Seven things that became clear when everything else was stripped away — most of them arrived against my will.
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The specific terror of building something real, making it public, and watching the users not arrive. On what you do in the silence after you ship.
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Getting an exoskeleton changes the physical fact of movement. It doesn't change what it means to have needed one. On the gap between what technology promises and what it delivers.
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Someone told me my book helped them while bedbound. I had no way to measure it. On the gap between the impact that gets tracked and the impact that actually matters.
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On the impossibility of fitting a multi-dimensional life into a one-word answer — and what happens when you stop trying.
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On MCAS, food intolerances, the expanding list of things that cause reactions — and the real grief underneath the semi-serious rant.
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29 March 2026 Can AI restore humanity in healthcare? Ten years. That's how long it took doctors to find my diagnosis. Ten seconds. That's how long
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← back to blog A 5090 Won't Fix This Friday, 27 March 2026 I've been chasing specs. For years. Better GPU. Better CPU. More RAM. Faster stora
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← back to blog spoons.worldpatient-datachronic-illnessresearchdevelopment Building Spoons.world: What We're Learning Friday, 27 March 2026 We
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← back to blog The Metrics We Don't Have Friday, 27 March 2026 Someone reached out recently. They said "Revolution from My Bed" helped them wh
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← back to blog identitychronic-illnesspatient-advocacyentrepreneurshipwhat-i-do What Do You Do? Wednesday, 25 March 2026 Someone asks. At a co
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← back to blog dysautonomiapotspemdisabilityassistive-techchronic-illness The Exoskeleton Tuesday, 24 March 2026 I couldn't walk without payin
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← back to blog chronically.lifechronic-illnesspatient-advocacyessayshonest-writing Chronically: Where the Honesty Lives Monday, 23 March 2026
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← back to blog techgamingsustainabilitymini-pc My $350 mini PC beats your $2000 gaming rig and also harms the planet less Sunday, 22 March 2026
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← back to blog buildingsolopreneurmental-healthhonest Shipping into the void Saturday, 21 March 2026 I've shipped things that nobody used. No
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← back to blog techgadgetsminimalism I replaced a £600 Apple Watch with a $26 Pine64 and I am fine Thursday, 19 March 2026 The Apple Watch Ult
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← back to blog solopreneurworkmental-health The loneliness nobody mentions and the freedom nobody warns you about Tuesday, 17 March 2026 I've
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← back to blog chronic-illnessfoodrant Why does everything I love try to kill me now Saturday, 14 March 2026 I used to eat everything. Gluten
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← back to blog techdigital-hygienetools How getting smaller saved my digital life Tuesday, 10 March 2026 I used to have a setup that looked im
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On performing wellness for so long that the performance rearranges the furniture in your head. What the body reports when the narrative isn't the true one.
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22 September 2025 The Entrepreneurial Body Keeps the Score: What Building a Business with Chronic Illness Really Looks Like There's a moment every
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8 September 2025 The Story That Changed My Life (And Can Change Yours) Hey everyone, For years, I've used this space to share my journey, but more
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3 September 2025 Revolutionizing Medical Education: The Empathy Imperative Why Five Days Changed Everything for Future Doctors Picture this: A firs
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19 April 2025 Do You Really Want to Get Better? The Hidden Comfort of Chronic Illness There's a question that haunts the corridors of chronic suffer
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21 March 2025 Invisible Illness, Visible Resilience Last night, during a yoga class meant to be inclusive, I found myself reliving years of medical
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21 March 2025 The Rise of Patient Influencers Shaping the Future of Healthcare A new force is emerging in healthcare: patient influencers. These in
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20 March 2025 The Silent Choreography of Pain Or why we mask our suffering to fit in Life is a theater and we become performers without choosing th
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8 February 2025 The Daily Price of Patient Advocacy Dancing with My Demons to Help Others Find Their Way Every morning, I open my laptop and willing
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2 February 2025 Breaking Free from Social Media's Success Theater You know what? I've been thinking a lot lately about this crazy race we're all su
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11 January 2025 Parenting Through the Fog A Chronicle of Love and Chronic Illness My newborn daughter's cries pierce through the familiar haze of p
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13 December 2024 Finally home again ✈️🎤 A quick life & Work update Hey Friends! 🎤 Time for a real "working on" update, because you asked (and I l
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7 December 2024 You asked for it, I deliverd A new Master Class in Public speaking Iv’e been getting a lot of emails, DM’s and shoutouts asking me t
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5 December 2024 An Exciting Update & A Special Offer Here's to another incredible year! I've been fortunate enough to speak in 12 new countries, fi
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27 October 2024 Back to Life My Journey from Bedridden to Walking Again My path to recovery began not with confident strides, but with rubber bands
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11 October 2024 Breaking Free A Raw Take on World Mental Health Day Yesterday was World Mental Health Day, and we're about to rip off the Band-Aid
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5 October 2024 Where Do I Begin? A Crossroads of Choices The journey to wellness often begins with a dizzying array of options, each promising a pa
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18 September 2024 Your next speaker should be a patient. Business leaders constantly seek fresh perspectives and insights to share with our teams a
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1 June 2024 From Victimhood to Responsibility Taking Or how did I escape the victim trap. The day my life collapsed, I had a choice. I could contin
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18 May 2024 Managing Energy with Chronic Illness Hey! people tend to take for granted to be able to manage a full day of activity while millions of
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15 May 2024 It's all in your Chest? (It's Not All in Your Head!) Hey everyone, We've all experienced tension, and for many of us, it seems to sett
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11 May 2024 Revolution From My bed? The Way Out A raw and honest account of one man's journey through chronic illness, trauma, and the search for t
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7 May 2024 So we begin And the body has it's say So, for those of you who don't know me, I'm Roi. I was born and raised in Israel. I have been offi
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7 May 2024 Where to start? The Way Out A raw and honest account of one man's journey through chronic illness, trauma, and the search for true heali
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5 May 2024 Sick of my Sickness. Hey, I’m Roi and I will use this podcast to help me expand on the my healing journey experiences. Lets start by un
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3 May 2024 The Healing Power of Empathy in Medicine Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Empathy is a profound human experience that co
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3 May 2024 Where to start? Or - How to Untie the Knots So I had a choice to make. Hundreds of threads to pull, and yet I knew each one would tighten
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1 May 2024 The Way Out A Chronicle of Relapse and Redemption It's a harsh realization: you pull through life with chronic illness, trying to surviv
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26 April 2024 Health IT is broken, Let's fix it. Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Let's face it, the current state of healthcare IT
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19 April 2024 A Tapestry of Strength: Fostering Collaboration in Patient Advocacy Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter There exists a s
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12 April 2024 Every Chronic Illness Has a Mental Health Component Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter When we talk about chronic illne
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5 April 2024 Case managers: The missing link of Healthcare Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Imagine yourself lost in the medical la
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29 March 2024 Invisible Champions: Why Supporting Caregivers Strengthens Us All Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Imagine a world wh
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22 March 2024 Lost in the Labyrinth: Why Health Literacy is the Key to Patient Empowerment Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Imagine
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15 March 2024 The Duality of Illness: Embracing the Journey While Demanding Recognition Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter There's a
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8 March 2024 The Bias Silencing Women in Healthcare Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Remember the crushing isolation, the suffocati
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1 March 2024 Rare Beyond Diagnosis: A Different Perspective on Rare Disease Day Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Roi Shternin This
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23 February 2024 The Forgotten Price of Chronic Illness: A Systemic Approach to Reclaiming Wellness Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter
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16 February 2024 Beyond the Buzzword: Why Patients Should Be the Pulse of Healthcare Innovation Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Al
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9 February 2024 Reclaiming Empathy in Healthcare Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter I once beheld doctors as angels in white coats, t
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2 February 2024 How “Illness Porn” Changed Chronic Illness Forever Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter By Roi Shternin In the last fe
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26 January 2024 The Invisible Burden of Chronic Illness Loneliness Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter I'll never forget the darkness
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19 January 2024 The Day Mental Health Is As Accessible As General Practice Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Roi Shternin The day m
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12 January 2024 The Coming Healthcare Revolution Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter In the age of rapid technological transformation,
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5 January 2024 Fighting for certainty: Why Patients are seeking information outside of the doctor's office. Chronically The Patient Empowerment Ne
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29 December 2023 Patient Empowerment: A Year in Review and a Call to Action Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter As we bid farewell to
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22 December 2023 Is it time to finally empower Patients? Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter We’ve all seen it - the patient sitting s
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15 December 2023 We are not clients. Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter As patients, we are not clients. We don't buy anything from y
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8 December 2023 Embracing True Patient Centricity in Healthcare Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Roi Shternin The concept of patie
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1 December 2023 Valuing Patient Time as Much as Clinician Time Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Roi Shternin Valuing Patient Time
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24 November 2023 The Urge to Prove Our Worth Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter By Roi Shternin When illness loosens its grip even b
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17 November 2023 Chronically Ignored Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter By Roi Shternin It's no secret that those of us suffering fr
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10 November 2023 The Invisible Struggle: The Mental Health Toll of Chronic Illness Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Roi Shternin C
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3 November 2023 The Time is Now to Bring Mental Health into the Mainstream Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter By Roi Shternin Mental
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27 October 2023 Learning from Israel's Response to Collective Trauma Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter by Roi Shternin Hello and we
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20 October 2023 A Revolution in Medical Education: The Power of Partnership and Resilience Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Roi Sht
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13 October 2023 The Wounds That Do Not Heal: The Trauma of War on the Soul of a Nation Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Since the d
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6 October 2023 Ableism is everywhere. Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Ableism refers to systemic discrimination and prejudice in f
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22 September 2023 Unlocking the Superpowers of Necessity: Why Chronically Ill and Disabled People May Be Our Best Employees Chronically The Patien
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15 September 2023 It's Time to Acknowledge Invisible Illness and Disability Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter As someone living with
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8 September 2023 It's Time for a Chief Patient Officer in Every Healthcare Organization Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Healthcare
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1 September 2023 It's Time to Lift the Taboo Off Mental Health Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Mental health is still considered t
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25 August 2023 Is it Our Job to State Our Disabilities? Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Imagine everyone had a backpack on their b
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18 August 2023 Patients are experts too. Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Roi Shternin Of living experience Of managing low resou
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11 August 2023 The Isolated Archipelago of Illness Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Roi Shternin When chronic illness strikes, pat
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28 July 2023 Harnessing the Power of Patient Experience Data, Patient-Reported Outcomes, and Patient Empowerment in Chronic Illness Management Chro
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21 July 2023 Health Literacy: The First Step to Empowered Self-Management Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Health literacy, defined
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14 July 2023 Introducing Patient Schools: Empowering Chronic Patients through Education Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Dear Reade
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7 July 2023 The Importance of Having Your Own Resiliency Toolkit Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Roi Shternin I have recently had
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30 June 2023 Empathy, Resilience, and Patient Empowerment in Medical School Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Hi everyone, In this
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23 June 2023 Empathy Training: A Promising Intervention for Improving Empathy Skills Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Empathy Train
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16 June 2023 Uplifting the Human Side of Healthcare Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Roi Shternin PAs and NPs: The Unsung Heroes o
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9 June 2023 Patient Empowerment: The Power of Post-Traumatic Growth Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Chronically Empowered June 9,
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2 June 2023 Empowering Change: Empathy, Equity, and Resilience in the Face of Chronic Illness Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Chro
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26 May 2023 Empowerment, Resilience, and Advocacy: Transforming Patient Experiences Worldwide Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter Chro
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19 May 2023 Paternalism to Empowerment Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter The Evolution of Healthcare - From Paternalism to Patient-C
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28 April 2023 Issue 3: Revolutionizing Healthcare through Empathy, Innovation, and Patient Involvement Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newslet
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21 April 2023 Empowering Voices: Navigating Compassion, Advocacy, and the Patient Experience Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter 🌟 We
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14 April 2023 Chronicles of Resilience: Empowering Voices in Chronic Illness Chronically The Patient Empowerment Newsletter 🌟 Welcome to this we
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10 April 2023 How to manage expectations as a Chronically ill patient? (and how to support them as an HCP) Chronically The Patient Empowerment New
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9 April 2023 Falling from Grace: Rising Beyond Relapse as an International Public Speaker with Chronic Illness Chronically The Patient Empowerment
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15 June 2021 Public speaker? Here are hard-learned lessons from Covid-19 I'm a professional public speaking. In fact, While trying to build a start
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12 December 2019 Prescription to a revolution or how to create a Patient-Led healthcare I've always wanted to be a Doctor, I didn't know exactly wh
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31 March 2016 How to start a revolution from your bed I was recently honored to give a talk at the prestigious TEDx in Shanghai. I was telling my o
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