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Live from Health 2.0: Diem Brown Announces Medical Gift Registry For Patients
Diem Brown was battling ovarian cancer when wedding and baby registry invitations begin flooding her mailbox. While her friends were asking for blenders and dishware, all she wanted was a wig and some help covering her medical bills. But there were no resources for her to orchestrate these needs, and flat-out asking was awkward. Fast-forward four years, and Diem is now making this resource possible for anyone in the hospital. Since entering remission a little over 4 years ago, she has been working on a medical gift registry—aptly called MedGift.com&mdashwhich launched this week... (continue reading this blog post)
Diem Brown was battling ovarian cancer when wedding and baby registry invitations begin flooding her mailbox. While her friends were asking for blenders and dishware, all she wanted was a wig and some help covering her medical bills. But there were no resources for her to orchestrate these needs, and flat-out asking was awkward.
Fast-forward four years, and Diem is now making this resource possible for anyone in the hospital. Since entering remission a little over 4 years ago, she has been working on a medical gift registry—aptly called MedGift.com — launched this week.
I met with Diem at Health 2.0 in San Francisco. She is beautiful and confident, and radiates genuine enthusiasm and compassion. From a Real World and Road Rules contestant to ovarian cancer patient to her new role as entrepreneur and executive, Diem faces adversity with grace and resilience. Check out our interview below:
Halle Tecco is a San Francisco resident and social entrepreneur passionate about technology, service and healthy living. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Yoga Bear, a non-profit providing more opportunities of health and wellness to cancer patients through the practice of yoga. Halle has worked as a Product Manager at various consumer-internet startups, including Enternships.com and Kiva.org. She also serves as an advisor to GreatNonprofits.org. She is pursuing her MBA at Harvard Business School and will graduate in 2011.
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COMMENTS
BY Joanne M Nesbitt
ON June 18, 2011 09:10 AM
Such a wonderful video and with great resources. You are so strong and caring. Please visit us anytime when your in CT. Would you like to join us for our walk to break the silence on ovarian cancer??nocc.kintera.org/connecticut. I am a 7 year Ovarian Cancer Survivor and what you are doing is wonderful!
Thank you for all you do!