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Friday, 24 February 2012
14:26 | Posted by
Louise Sopher
'A table, made for six people, lurks in the corner of the pub. Its occupants wave at you, and you take the empty seat, shake hands, do what conversation calls for. It's not long before you've led the chatter in a curious direction, and you've ended up watching the man or woman opposite you. 'So what is it that you've got?' you ask.
'But if you are chatting about your illnesses, you're not seeing them as the challenge of medical science - you're seeing them as your challenge. And that's good. That's good because medical science cannot solve everything.'
'Well,' replies the person, and the conversation turns into a competition, a pathetic number-game where whoever has the most health conditions wins. Meanwhile the open-mouths around the table suggest your gob-smacked friends cannot even begin to understand why the two of you are in fits of giggles, apparently finding the proceedings rather humorous. You even begin to split up your main diseases into their symptoms, labelling the sub-conditions as entirely separate...they'll never notice! you holler in your mind.'
Read my latest post on Everyday Health: http://www.everydayhealth.com/blogs/life-with-a-headless-metabolism-thyroid-disease/whatever-your-condition-is-its-a-challenge
'But if you are chatting about your illnesses, you're not seeing them as the challenge of medical science - you're seeing them as your challenge. And that's good. That's good because medical science cannot solve everything.'
Sunday, 29 January 2012
The Knowledge Divide - Life with a Headless Metabolism: Thyroid Disease - Everyday Health Blogs
We typically look at the internet as one vast collection of knowledge which search engines work endlessly to plough through on our behalf, so that we can look out on the field and find the ripe strawberry amongst the dead ones. But I have found, time and time again, that even within the internet a divide exists. This divide is clearly not digital, but it is one of access to, and participation in, knowledge communities.
In my Everyday Health post this week I argue for centralising the conversation and debate on thyroid disease. To find out what I'm talking about, and to share your opinions, click on the link below.
Read it Now: The Knowledge Divide - Life with a Headless Metabolism: Thyroid Disease - Everyday Health Blogs
'When community leaders are spending time answering the same questions over and over again, and when individuals post the same arguments and the same questions and the same criticisms under the same forum headings while the older debates, three steps ahead, get shuffled into the archive, we don't get any further than this stage one of questions and shouting and 'what do you think?' and 'let's hear your opinion, shall we?'. '
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