The plateau16 attended
Counting the things that are not the scale
The largest plateau call we have had, and a much better-tempered one than the January disaster. I set it up deliberately: everyone brings one thing that changed during…
The community
Group call recaps
Written up afterwards by the facilitator who held the call. 38 of them, from May 2024 onwards.
Parents12 attended
I got this wrong and I would like it written down
I handled a member badly on this call. She raised something about her teenage daughter and I answered as though she had asked for reassurance when she had asked for…
Just starting17 attended
The room got loud and we had to slow it down
This one did not go well for the first half and I want to write it up honestly. Seventeen people, seven of them brand new, and the call turned into a very enthusiastic…
Sourcing safely15 attended
The argument about the word verified
This call turned into a row and I did not manage it well. Two members disagreed about whether a supplier could be described as verified, it got personal on both sides,…
Maintenance12 attended
When a steady dose stops holding
Three members arrived with the same thing: a dose that had held them steady for a year or more had stopped doing so, over a couple of months, without any change they…
Insurance appeals11 attended
Four paragraphs a reviewer can act on
A writing workshop, which is what most of this circle actually is. Eleven people with a refusal identified and a criterion in hand, spending an hour on the four…
Nausea and eating11 attended
When not eating starts to feel like the win
Jonah joined this call at my request, and I would ask him again. Somewhere in the third week of a difficult month, for some people, not eating stops being a symptom and…
Type 214 attended
What the kidney trial changed about the questions we ask
Sunil came over from the reading group for this one and we ran it jointly. The subject was FLOW — Perkovic V, et al. New England Journal of Medicine 2024;391(2):109 to…
Research reading group18 attended
The cardiovascular trial, and relative against absolute
SELECT — Lincoff AM, et al. New England Journal of Medicine 2023;389(24):2221 to 2232. Our biggest reading group to date, largely because this is the paper members are…
Side effect support12 attended
The night we asked someone to go and be seen
Fifteen minutes into this call one member described symptoms that did not belong in a circle, and the rest of the hour happened differently as a result. I want to write…
The first twelve weeks11 attended
Nothing tastes the way it used to
A call about taste and smell, which sounds minor and repeatedly turns out not to be. Eleven people, and by the end we were not talking about food at all — we were…
The plateau8 attended
The evening nobody wanted to speak
This was a bad call and I am writing it up as one. Eight people, a dark January Thursday, and about twelve minutes in the room simply stopped. Not a hostile silence. A…