IHD goes to Stanford

[Meinuk]

You know that feeling of pride you get when you see something or someone you care about in print? 

Well, yesterday, I totally understood that feeling.  As I was reading case study, I saw that they were quoting KitKatz and StacywithoutanE.  And the footnotes were citing both IHD and Stacy's Blog as sources.  Epoman would be thrilled, IHD has gone Ivy League.

I blogged about it over at Dialysis from the Sharp End of the Needle, and Bill made it today's 7am post.

As Posted at Bill Peckham's Blog Dialysis from the sharp end of the needle.

June 04, 2008
Teaching Dialysis at Business School (using IHD)
By Anna Bennett

After an earlier discussion with Bill, I started thinking about for-profit dialysis.  Specifically, I was wondering if there had been any business school case studies done on the for-profit business of dialysis. In my experience, case studies often shed an interesting light on the particular business/industry that they are profiling.  After all they are often written by the MBA student's who will be tomorrow's CEO's.


I came across a few studies.  One that caught my attention was:  Challenges in Renal Care (offered for sale by Harvard Business School Press)


This is how Stanford's Graduate School of Business describes the authorship of  Challenges in Renal Care:

Elizabeth Rodriguez prepared this case under the supervision of Professor Stefanos Zenios as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. This case was updated in 2006 by Melanie Wyld.

Well, it is safe to say that I am intimately familiar with the process of dialysis, and as I started reading the case, I was a bit bored. But then, I started looking at the footnotes, the patients that they were quoting were eerily familiar:

6 Katherine, 43-year-old dialysis patient http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=173.0 (June 23, 2006)
7 http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=466.0 (May 2, 2006).

Does KitKatz, (a moderator over at IHD) know that she is quoted in a teaching case used at Stanford Business School? (As a working teacher herself, I hope that she is thrilled to be quoted in an academic text.)

And one particularly poignant quote was attributed to:

10 Stacy, 34-year-old dialysis patient, http://stacywithoutane.blogspot.com/2005/02/dialysis-is-stealing-my-soul.html (June 23, 2006).

Why that is IHD's StacywithoutanE - Bill tracks his blog (as well as over 60 others). Stacy has always been very candid with his dialysis experience, his blog is touching with the right amount of wit and irony thrown in.  Even though he makes his living in the public spotlight as a Drive Time DJ on the FM dial, he has subtly integrated his private CKD journey/battle with his public persona.

This is a sure sign that internet blogs and bulletin boards are becoming a facet of mainstream education.  Dialyzors' voices are being heard (or at least their words are being read)- in lieu of actually going to a dialysis unit to interview patients, the researchers searched the net, and stumbled across IHD.  At first, my reaction was that the researchers were being lazy, but then I realized that, via the internet, they have access to candid thoughts of individual Dialyzors.  This is a good thing.





EDITED: Removed Link and Copied from (Dialysis from the sharp end of the needle -Bill Peckham) and I got the period you missed Anna - Sluff/Admin
 

[okarol]

Wow! That's fascinating! Thanks Meinuk!

[devon]

It sure makes the point that the internet has changed how we gather and disseminate information!  It is also a reminder that what is said here is public information... so be very careful what you write and divulge about yourself!


-Devon

[Sluff]

Thanks for sharing this with us, Meinuk and Bill Peckham. 

[monrein]

Very very interesting. 

[Bill Peckham]

Sluff you could at least spell my name right 

My dog Cairny doesn't pronounce his Rs but even he'd have trouble with Prckham

[Sluff]

Sorry Bill slip of the finger I guess. 2 out of 3 ain't bad is it? 

[Bill Peckham]

I was just teasing ya.

I know Epoman had a thing about linking in pictures or even links to mainstream websites. I tried to talk to him about it back in the day and he was set in his opinion - no outside links!!

It's why I wasn't sure myself how to point people to a blog post of mine. I guess the answer is cross post.

I still think Epoman should have allowed them - it's how the internet works - but I got no where with him and now I suppose it's set in stone. It'll be an IHD quirk.

[okarol]

I had the same discussion with Epoman. His position was that people post links that are meant to be temporary files, such as images or news stories. Often after a period of time these links do not work anymore because of archiving, or a website no longer exists, and useful or interesting info is lost. He wanted the threads to hold up on their own over time.

[Sluff]

I was just teasing ya.

I know Epoman had a thing about linking in pictures or even links to mainstream websites. I tried to talk to him about it back in the day and he was set in his opinion - no outside links!!

It's why I wasn't sure myself how to point people to a blog post of mine. I guess the answer is cross post.

I still think Epoman should have allowed them - it's how the internet works - but I got no where with him and now I suppose it's set in stone. It'll be an IHD quirk.

Or it just might be what makes IHD the #1 dialysis site message board.    Of course I may be a little prejudice.   

[Rerun]

Epoman's dream was to have IHD get National recognition.  We are getting closer.  Thanks Meinuk!

When we get on Oprah then we've made the big time.

[Ohio Buckeye]

Wow!!!!!

[kitkatz]

Well, well, there I am being quoted at Stanford.  Dangerous isn't it?