November 2, 2011, 9:58 am
I may be sitting in the Oakland International Airport, but my heart, and soon the rest of me, will be in the heart of Los Angeles, California!
Swimming pools, movie stars? Oh no. Something even better!
BLOG WORLD EXPO!
*****
If you are a blogger, if you read blogs,
If you own a freaking computer, even if you are one of the poor souls who don’t own a Mac…
THIS IS WHERE YOU NEED TO BE!!!
Okay, I might be a little excited.
But I’m telling you, I would mortage my home, rent out my husband (sorry, John!) or even my MacBookPro (gasp!) if it meant I could make it to this conference.
I’m, like, the first person at the convention center doors when they open in the morning, and the last person they, um, escort out at the end.
I stalk all the speakers make sure I have a chance to meet all the great speakers and learn from their vast experiences in social media.
This year, I will have the opportunity to meet another of my blog fathers.
Yes, James Lileks will be at Blog World this year!!!!
I was less nervous meeting Steve Perry and Kasey Kahne.
Seriously.
All I have to do is act like the mature, professional, accomplished registered nurse and blogger than everyone thinks I am.
Great disguise, eh?
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This marks the fourth year the Social Health track will be meeting at Blog World, and it’s come a long, long way from that exploratory year when it was just a few medbloggers, Shane (my web guy) and Rob and Marc from Johnson & Johnson.
The sessions are fantastic!
Tomorrow, we start with “What Companies Can Do to Support Patient Needs”, with Katie Loeb (Overflowing Brain), Jenni Prokopy (ChronicBabe.com), Kerri Sparling (Six Until Me), and Russ Starke (thinkbrownstone.com).
Shwen Gwee then takes us into “Health, Activated: Can Health be the next Social (Media) Contagion?”. Shwen is the VP of Digital Health at Edelman and the founder of Med20.com Blog. She is going to be a hard act to follow!
So…guess who gets to follow her! 
Yep!
Yours truly, Jamie Davis (the Podmedic) and Terri Pollick (Nurse Ratched’s Place)!
We’re talking “Shoot From the HIPAA” or how not to be afraid of HIPAA when you blog, podcast or tweet!
Do you ever get rid of butterflies before you speak?
Ugh.
Well, my plane has arrived, and the good people of Southwest Airlines will probably be giving pre-flight instructions shortly.
My trip has started out on a good footing,
I have an “A” ticket!
October 5, 2011, 6:12 pm
My husband surprised me with a Macintosh Performa 575 in 1994.
I told him it had to be a Mac.
None of those god-awful Windows pieces of garbage.
A Mac.
I was Apple to the core from the beginning.
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This family eats, sleeps and breathes Apple.
Okay, my son and I eat, sleep and breathe Apple.
I joke that I worship at the Altar of Steve Jobs.
So today’s announcement of his passing, while expected, is still horribly sad.
My computing life, no, my entire life, is so totally entwined in Apple, I can honestly say if not for Steve Jobs and his vision, this blog would not exist.
Emergiblog is six years old now. Because of this blog I have made friends worldwide, traveled across the country, and was inspired to return to school for my BSN – online.
Steve said technology doesn’t change lives.
It changed miine.
It changed ours.
For the better.
Forever.
So thank you, Steve.
For everything.
September 26, 2011, 9:59 pm
You know me.
I’m all over anything that is from the BBC.
But this is different.
There is no TARDIS. And there are nurses along with the doctor. Lots of nurses.
And the only people flying through time and space are the trauma patients before they hit the bus or the ground.
24 Hours in the ER premiers tonight on BBC America. I received a copy of the first two episodes from BBC America unedited for American television. Of course in Great Britian, this was called “24 Hours in A&E”.
On a personal level, I like it. It reminds me of the old “Trauma in the ER”.
On a professional level, it’s like being at work. Even the equipment is the same.
How is the nursing staff portrayed? It will be hard to say without seeing the U.S edit on Tuesday night, but in the first two episodes there are nurse practitioners anesthetizing lacerations, nurses working on trauma teams, taking the lead in Code Blues, advising physicians that their head injured patients aren’t retaining one word of the information they are painstakingly imparting (“Come back tomorrow!”) and doing post-mortem care (don’t see that on TV very often).
It’s realistic without being gory, touching without being sappy, and the nurses are there to save your ass and manage to treat you like a human being in the process.
And if every A&E in England is that freaking polite, I’m pulling up stakes and moving across the pond.
The link I’ve given above is to the “Meet the Staff” page. Take a look at it. I’d work with any one of them in a split second.
I’m hoping to score an interview with Nurse Jen.
They say the producers watched American television to see what our medical shows were like and that they saw we wanted character driven shows.
This is a character driven show, but this time the characters are real. Nurses. Doctors. Porters. Patients. ER techs.You. Me. Our next patient.
I laughed, got my adrenaline up for the trauma codes. And I cried.
But I cry at Doctor Who, so go figure….
I definitely recommend it.
Let me know what you think.
