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BodyShock Winner Profile: Patient Narratives
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Recovery Project from IFTF on Vimeo.
Here is another of the winning presentations from the BodyShock the Future contest for ideas to improve global health that was held this summer.
One of the top 5 winners of the contest was The Recovery Project, with Michael Nagle flying in from Boston for the event. His presentation is above, and his entry into the contest describes his insightful idea:
"The Recovery Project would organize people's personal narratives of recovery so that they can be best learned from by others. By letting patients see what others have done and by creating high-level meta-narratives, patients can see the decision trees that others have used, saving time in creating their own from scratch. Sharing and reading similar narratives provides an affective component to possibilities for personal health -- critical when conditions require changes of habit. And experts and practitioners will be able to contribute their stories of helping patients recover, integrating various medical professions' perspectives, instead of creating a divide."
This past week, Michael sent us an update on his progress in the past couple of months:
"I'm shifting gears a bit with that project -- I'm moving less from broadly interviewing people with interesting recoveries to look at specific cases of people who recover as micro-experts in health: very knowledgable about their case and their treatment. Right now, I'm looking at what it means for me to document and present my own case, and also am exploring training in the posture method I used -- as a realization that knowing it through my own body gives me a good deal of expertise already."
We wish Michael all the best as he moves forward with his idea to develop narratives from health micro-experts. Stay tuned for videos of the other BodyShock winners over the coming weeks, and for updates on each winner as they make progress.