The Liz Army:
A blog
Patient. Patient advocate. Researcher. Student.
There are more than 500 posts here. Use this search to look for something specific. Good luck!
A note about my oldest posts: I began blogging about brain cancer in 2008, at age 29. I had no background or knowledge about healthcare when I started. Please excuse typos and other misconceptions. What you read here is me in real time, like a time capsule.
Adaptive Driving After Brain Surgery: The Hidden Costs of Neurological Disability
I have a status update on the driving-front! I wrote last fall about going back to school. What I didn't say explicitly then is that I couldn't have committed to that decision without knowing I could physically get there.
STAT: “Why I decided to share all my health information with ChatGPT Health“
I use every tool at my disposal to make sense of the messiness of living with brain cancer. I don’t recommend this approach for everyone. My hope is that models like ChatGPT Health can help regular people become more curious about their health, learn to ask informed questions, and feel more prepared for their medical visits.
My First 72 Hours With OpenAI’s New Health GPT: Early Impressions
As someone who has spent nearly two decades experimenting with digital health tools—personal health records, tethered portals, wearables, symptom trackers, oncology apps, research dashboards—I was excited to see what Health GPT could actually do for me.