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12y ago
Swapping out the screengrab too, will be updated soon.
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gracegarey
12y ago
You're 100% right. Edited.
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gracegarey
13y ago
Yikes, sorry to hear that. What was the error message? Feel free to email me - grace at watsi dot org - and we'll sort it out. Thanks for wanting to sign up!
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gracegarey
13y ago
Thanks! We used https://exposure.so/ .
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Grace from Watsi here. I totally understand where you're coming from based on how the post is written - our fault for being hyperbolic. Of course, we would never walk through a hospital and record people without their explicit permissi
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A dose of perspective
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Watsi is looking for a Google Adwords volunteer
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I'm sorry to hear you thought the post was snarky. Our goal was to bid a lighthearted farewell to our blue logo and raise money for patients. No hard feelings toward the company. We chose not to name them because it wasn't the poi
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13y ago
Thanks so much for donating! Appreciate the bitpay info -- will look into it.
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13y ago
No trash burning, just a little party to send off our blue logo in style :)
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Thanks, Matt!
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An Early Retirement
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13y ago
No, this is actually 100% for treatments, not our operations.
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13y ago
My favorite was Noplu (North of Plum) but the debate rages on :)
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Watsi is hiring an operations expert to shape the future of global health
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gracegarey
13y ago
Gorgeous, the page and the philosophy. The world needs more of this.
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13y ago
Sorry if this is unclear, but you don't need to create an account at all to donate. All you have to do is enter an amount and click "Fund Treatment." Creating an account just saves your payment info for quick checkout in the
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13y ago
Fixed!
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gracegarey
13y ago
Awesome idea.
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gracegarey
13y ago
Awesome. Thanks for donating! It's pretty incredible to think that by connecting people, we may be able to transcend systems that aren't working.
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Thanks so much! Really appreciate the kind words. Re: media strategy. Broad, national, mainstream outlets will be our next big challenge. Today would be amazing. Good Morning America, Frontline World News, 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper, Faree
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13y ago
Thank you for everything, Eric!
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gracegarey
13y ago
ScriptEd is of the scrappiest, most awesome startups I've come across recently.
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gracegarey
13y ago
You're awesome, Jaisen. We're excited to partner with Trovebox!
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Great question. We typically fund treatments that are likely to be curative, so we haven't dealt with this yet. But in the event that a patient's condition isn't fully resolved through treatment, we'd let the donors know, and if the Medical
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gracegarey
14y ago
Absolutely! We don't have a formal internship or volunteer program yet. But we'd love to connect and see if there's a way we can get you involved. Feel free to email connect@watsi.org and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.
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We're really excited about using video down the line. Right now, you're right. There are some tough barriers. But we hope to overcome them in the not-too-distant future!
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No worries! Not at all. Thanks again :)
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We do our best to make sure no patient goes without an update for too long, but are a bit constrained by our operational capacity right now (part of the reason we're fundraising). In Madeline's case, the surgery is taking longer than antici
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14y ago
This is coming soon - it's one of the top feature requests we get. Thanks for the feedback!
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