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Five million

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply May 18, 2013
  • Journal · 205 replies
  • Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...

A new Inspire report in collaboration with Stanford Medical School

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply May 5, 2013
  • Journal · 84 replies
  • As many of you know, Inspire has a professional collaboration with the Stanford University School of Medicine. Inspire members have written personal stories for the Stanford Scope column. I am pleased ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Deanna Attai, MD

John2
  • By John2 · New reply April 16, 2013
  • Journal · 16 replies
  • Dear members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. The people in this ...

We're hiring!

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted January 22, 2013
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Hello everyone, We have a position open with our engineering team at Inspire, and I'd like to share the job description with you in the event you know just the person we're looking for. We found our most ...

4 Weeks Out from Surgery

GwynnerWinner
  • By GwynnerWinner · New reply September 8, 2012
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • I am healing very well. Will start radiation for 5 weeks, 5 x/week in less than two weeks. My deep margin was not clean and 5 of 13 nodes tested "dirty", so treatment will include all left side nodes ...

Surgery on August 6th at 1:30pm

GwynnerWinner
  • By GwynnerWinner · New reply August 17, 2012
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • Feeling a little overwhelmed with all the information I'm getting, but I'll be brief. Go to see the plastic surgeon tomorrow at 2:30 for a consult. I'm doing radiation after my double mass, so the skin ...

Life

tofuroxs
  • By tofuroxs · New reply June 21, 2012
  • Journal · 12 replies
  • Wow, where do I start? Well, my name's Chris, I was born in 1984 in Brandon, Fl, on August 16th. On June 25th 1987 I was burned in a fire that burned 97% of body with 3rd degree burns. I've got through ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Howard Luks, MD

John2
  • By John2 · New reply April 15, 2012
  • Journal · 59 replies
  • Dear Inspire Community Members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people we feel are making contributions to helping patients worldwide. We are posting ...

The Inspire Q&A--Inspire talks with Susan Grant

John2
  • By John2 · New reply February 15, 2012
  • Journal · 31 replies
  • Dear readers, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of interviews with people making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. We are posting these interviews ...

Inspire is hiring!

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply January 20, 2012
  • Journal · 15 replies
  • Inspire is hiring, and we're wondering if you know someone who would be the perfect addition to our team. Hello everyone, I'm Walter, one of Inspire's founders and the head of our technical team. I'm ...

The Inspire Q&A--Inspire talks with Michele Baldwin

John2
  • By John2 · Posted January 3, 2012
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Dear readers, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of interviews with people making contributions to patients and caregivers worldwide. We are posting these interviews in a Q&A ...

Following: A new Inspire feature

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply December 5, 2011
  • Journal · 111 replies
  • Hello everyone, I'm writing to let you know about a new Inspire feature that we launched last night, designed to help you keep track of conversations you're interested in. We call it "following" and here's ...

Patient-driven research

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted October 13, 2011
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • I'd like to share with you a new Inspire report, The SCAD Ladies Stand Up: Stories of Patient Empowerment, which chronicles patient-initiated research in our community. This amazing patient-driven effort ...

flam trap

asilm
  • By asilm · Posted October 9, 2011
  • Discussion in My story · 0 replies
  • I had a tram flap surgery in July 2011, This is my second attempt at reconstruction since my masectomy two years ago. I seem to have disasterous results each time, The first surgery i had expanders put ...

Scars from an accident (long)

juusanjuu
  • By juusanjuu · New reply August 24, 2011
  • Discussion in My story · 2 replies
  • Hello all, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, please let me know if I should post elsewhere. I'm 26 now and currently working in Asia but am Canadian. When I was 19 I was hit by a car and ...

with open arms

jennajayne
  • By jennajayne · Posted August 18, 2011
  • Discussion in Questions · 0 replies
  • Two and a half years ago I was in a car accident. I was a junior in highschool and sixteen at the time. I hit head on with a snowplow the whole lucky to be alive story they tell me. Well my air bag did ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Mithra Behnam Mojtahedi

John2
  • By John2 · New reply July 30, 2011
  • Journal · 15 replies
  • Dear readers, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of interviews with people we feel are making contributions to helping patients worldwide. We are posting these interviews in ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with “e-Patient Dave” deBronkart

John2
  • By John2 · New reply July 26, 2011
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Dear Inspire Community Members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people we feel are making contributions to helping patients worldwide. We are posting ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Kevin Pho, MD

John2
  • By John2 · New reply July 19, 2011
  • Journal · 58 replies
  • Dear Inspire Community Members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people we feel are making contributions to helping patients worldwide. We are posting ...

New feature -- Browse posts you've recommended

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply June 26, 2011
  • Journal · 38 replies
  • Hello everyone, We added a new feature today that we hope you find helpful. You can now browse the complete list of posts that you have recommended, here: Browse posts you've recommended What's a recommendation ...

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