As you might imagine, I don’t share your fear. The public may need edumacatin’, but I would respectfully submit that your colleagues need it, too. I believe that all of these companies and communities–PatientsLikeMe, 23andMe and Navigencs et al–arose organically out of frustration with the glacial moves of the health care system and the dismissiveness that is too often visited upon patients by doctors. This is Act Up all over again. In any case, I think you and I probably agree that finger-wagging lectures about “inappropriate translation” will change nothing.

I’ll see you at the World Science Festival if not before–my arteries are crying out for the Lexington Candy Shop…