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Engaging with communities on Inspire: Inspire’s Ostomy Support Community
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Engaging with communities on Inspire: Inspire’s Ostomy Support Community

Engaging with communities on Inspire: Inspire’s Ostomy Support Community Engaging with communities on Inspire: Inspire’s Ostomy Support Community Ostomy surgery is a procedure performed on people who have a diseased or malfunctioning colon, small intestines or bladder. After the procedure, bodily wastes - either urine, feces or indigestible food - leave the body through a created opening in the abdomen, called a stoma. Waste is collected in medical appliances. Bearing this significant change in basic bodily functions, coping with and accepting this transformation requires support. Providing this support is the Ostomy Discussion Community on Inspire, an example [...]

Patients MacGyvering: a resource for device and equipment manufacturers

Patients MacGyvering: a resource for device and equipment manufacturers To solve problems that patients actually have is a challenge. Companies miss opportunities when blindly offering patients what people other than patients say they need. When medical device or equipment manufacturers are looking for ideas or trying to think of ways to improve their product, they should pay attention to the MacGyvering being done by patients and caregivers. In 2015, the Oxford Dictionary added the verb MacGyver. MacGyver means “to make or repair (an object) in an improvised or inventive way, making use of whatever items are at [...]

Video Vignettes: Through Their Own Eyes: Living With Ostomy

Video Vignettes: Through Their Own Eyes: Living With Ostomy “The same thing could be said about guys who go to war, that unless you've been there you can't really understand what it is like and so your really best buddies are the ones that have been warriors like you…Those are the people you can really relate to the best, even more so than your own family.” ~member of the Ostomy Support Community on Inspire. People who have been through the operation that removes all or portions of their colons, ileums or bladders must live with and adapt [...]