Give a Duck: A good convo over a cup of tea
This is the last in the series about my new Give a Duck Community. I see online spaces as a puzzle. No one site can give me everything I...
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Sue Robins
- Nov 9, 2022
- 2 min
The Proximity of Mortality - A Visual Artist’s Journey Through Cancer
…sometimes simplicity is the most powerful spiritual stimulation. - Nicholas J Petrelli, M.D. On the surface, The Proximity of Mortality,...
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Sue Robins
- Oct 30, 2022
- 4 min
My Better Way: Give a Duck Community
The second in a series Last month I wrote about my growing discomfort with Twitter that ended with the assertion: There’s got to be a...
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Sue Robins
- Oct 19, 2022
- 4 min
A Health Care Rant: We are Heading Entirely in the Wrong Direction
Health care's raison d'être is to care for patients. If patients and caregivers aren't an organization's #1 stakeholder - the first...
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Sue Robins
- Sep 30, 2022
- 3 min
Safe Spaces for Health Care Advocates
This essay is the first of a series The other day I posted this picture of me wearing an N95 mask on Twitter. I have a big-ish following...
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Sue Robins
- Aug 29, 2022
- 2 min
A Remarkable Life
(Lorraine) helped her staff address their challenges, and recognize their joys, in taking care of patients and their families...and the...
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Sue Robins
- Aug 7, 2022
- 4 min
There’s Got to Be a Better Way: Punking Health Care
There is a genre called solarpunk that is a creative way of describing a future state of the world where humanity has succeeded in...
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Sue Robins
- Jul 24, 2022
- 3 min
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
How can we relate to stories that threaten our own? Some of us go towards the threat. We search and question and dig. Some of us...
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Sue Robins
- Jul 11, 2022
- 2 min
Stay Soft Warriors
Recently I was asked how our family deals with the heavy weight of advocacy work. I rabble-rouse in health care for a living and my...
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Sue Robins
- Jun 26, 2022
- 3 min
All Teams Need a Deanna Troi
I took a professional communications certificate program a few years ago. The instructors had us take a personality test during the...
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Sue Robins
- May 5, 2022
- 3 min
a rainy afternoon during the pandemic
It is Cinco de Mayo, so I stopped at the Mexican grocer by the lake with all the ducks. A lady in the shop was wearing her mask under her...
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Sue Robins
- Apr 18, 2022
- 4 min
How COVID is Like Cancer
I’ve been musing on the many parallels between the government’s response to COVID and my own cancer experience. I was diagnosed and...
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Sue Robins
- Mar 27, 2022
- 2 min
"Dying is a Big Health Problem"
My son Aaron created this video to be included in a subscription package for the Gathering of Kindness in Australia. (Interested in a...
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Sue Robins
- Mar 21, 2022
- 1 min
my offerings
My professional has always been driven by my personal. I wear one hat and it is me. I'm fortunate to work in an area that I feel...
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Sue Robins
- Feb 22, 2022
- 3 min
It's Not Just You
When my youngest was in grade one, he spent a lot of time in the principal's office. I remember the shame of being called to pick him...
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Sue Robins
- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
Anger and Joy
I woke up to the outrage that comes with inequity when my youngest son was born with Down syndrome almost two decades ago. I’ve always...
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Sue Robins
- Feb 7, 2022
- 5 min
Where Has the Trust Gone?
There’s been so much trust broken since the pandemic began. Our family no longer trusts that school environments will keep my son safe,...
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Sue Robins
- Jan 17, 2022
- 2 min
The Ducks Have Landed!
Here is a Q + A with author Sue Robins about her newest book, Ducks in a Row: Health Care Reimagined, which is now available on Amazon....
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Sue Robins
- Jan 9, 2022
- 2 min
The Million Dollar Question
In the depths of our current health care disaster, the million-dollar question is how do we change the system? The answer? Unless you...
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Sue Robins
- Dec 15, 2021
- 2 min
Three Lessons from a Little Baby
I am at my daughter’s house, looking after her while she cares for her new baby. I literally can’t leave the house, because of...
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