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August 12, 2011 By e-Patient Dave 4 Comments

Views and languages for “Let Patients Help”

Updated 11/4/2011

This is an ongoing tally of response to the Let Patients Help talk at TEDx Maastricht, April 4, 2011. It went up on TED.com on June 29, got 50,000 views in the first 24 hours, and has since been traveling around the world.

In my last day job I worked in analytics (measuring Web traffic), so of course I’m going to track this baby.

Two things amaze (and please) me about the response.

  • It’s gone viral. Less than seven weeks after it was posted on TED.com, it continued to get a thousand views a day. (This is not normal for TED videos.)
    • In the Most Viewed rankings, of the 1,008 TED Talks of all time, it was #527 (Aug 11) #522 (Aug 12) #515 (Aug 13) #505 (Aug 18) #493 of 1016 (Sept 9) #483 of 1042 (Oct. 6). It made it into the top half in the first two months.
    • It appears this has touched something a lot of people care about, because they’re sending it to friends, who forward it to their friends. That’s the definition of viral: spreading on its own, far beyond the originator’s reach.
  • It’s gone global. Volunteers in the TED community can add subtitles, in whatever language they want.  First someone added English, then Spanish … now here’s the list, approximately in chronological order:
    1. English: on.ted.com/Dave or on.ted.com/ePatientDave (The capital letters are important.)
    2. Spanish: Dave deBronkart: Les presento a e-Patient Dave by Francisco Gnecco, reviewed by Eduardo Sierra
    3. Romanian: Dave deBronkart: Faceţi cunoştinţă cu e-Pacientul Dave by Lucia Grosarul, reviewed by Ana M
    4. Portuguese (Brazil): Dave deBronkart: Conheça o Paciente Eletrónico Dave by Nadja Nathan, reviewed by Elena Crescia
    5. Dutch: Dave deBronkart: Hier is e-Patiënte Dave by Rik Delaet, reviewed by Christel Foncke
    6. Italian: Dave deBronkart: Vi Presento l’e-Patient Dave by Daniele Buratit, reviewed by Laura Leotta
    7. Persian (Farsi): دیوید دِبرونکارت: ملاقات با بیمار الکترونیکی دیو (e-Patient Dave) by soheila Jafari, reviewed by Mohammad Reza Minoosepehr
    8. French: Dave deBronkart: Voici Dave, e-patient by Elisabeth Buffard, reviewed by Gwénaëlle Buchet
    9. Korean: Dave deBronkart: e-환자, Dave를 소개합니다 by Jungsoo Kim, reviewed by Su Jeong Han
    10. Croatian: Dave deBronkart: Upoznajte e-pacijenta Davea by Vedrana Vučković, reviewed by Tilen Pigac – EFZG
    11. Swedish, Aug. 8:  Träffa e-patienten Dave by Johan Cegrell, reviewed by Sara Riggare
    12. Hebrew, Aug. 10: דייב דיברונקארט: הכירו את החולה המתוקשב דייב by Edo Dotan, reviewed by Ido Dekkers
    13. Chinese (Traditional), Aug. 11: 戴維德博卡特:認識網e-病人戴維 by Vicky Chen, reviewed by Chien-Ping 洪健彬 Hung
    14. Chinese (Simplified), Aug. 12: Dave deBronkart: 认识e-病人Dave by Peng Zhang, reviewed by Felix Chen
    15. Russian, Aug. 12: Дэйв деБронкарт: Знакомьтесь, е-Пациент Дэйв by Yuliya Degtyaryova, reviewed by Jekaterina Pavliucenkova
    16. Polish, Aug. 12: Poznajcie e-Pacjenta Dave’a by Izabela Undrul, reviewed by Agata Leśnicka
    17. Portuguese (Portugal), Aug. 19: Dave deBronkart: Conheça o e-Paciente Dave by Isabel V. Belchior, reviewed by Joana Neto
    18. German, Sept. 9: Dave deBronkart: Lernen Sie e-Patient Dave kennen by Brigitte Federi, reviewed by Karin Friedli
    19. Bulgarian, Sept. 10: Дейв деБронкарт: Запознайте се с е-Пациент Дейв by Nikola Chernev, reviewed by Darina Starinova
    20. Greek, September: Aς γνωρίσουμε τον e-Patient Dave by Kathi Apostolidis, reviewed by Alexandros Tzaferidis
    21. Indonesian, September: Dave deBronkart: Jumpai e-Patient Dave by Antonius Yudi Sendjaja, reviewed by handarmin
    22. Japanese, September: デイブ・デブロンカート:e-患者・デイブにこんにちは。 by Lisa Akiyama, reviewed by Eriko Nagai
    23. Arabic, Oct. 14: داف دي برونكرت: إسم الشهرة المريض الالكتروني داف by Elkhair Abdalla, reviewed by Bob Samuel
    24. Turkish, ca. Oct. 30: Dave deBronkart: e-Hasta Dave ile Tanışın by Mustafa Ozkaynak, reviewed by Sancak Gülgen
    25. Czech, Nov. 4: Seznamte se, e-Pacient Dave by Filip Konig, reviewed by Michaela Jez

Whatever it is that people are responding to, it cuts across cultures. (North America, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Middle East, Asia…)

I’ll update the list as new languages are added. Thank you, especially to these volunteer translators and to anyone who’s passed it to friends.

Filed Under: patient engagement, public speaking 4 Comments

Comments

  1. ileana says

    September 10, 2011 at 8:57 am

    Dave,

    As long as you are updating this post often, please add a link to the English talk in the post, maybe on the TEDx picture. I’d like to link to this post because it has all the links in all the languages.

    It is a great talk! I’m glad it’s gone viral!

    Thanks!

    Reply
    • e-Patient Dave says

      September 10, 2011 at 9:13 am

      Hi Ileana – thanks!

      The basic version without subtitles is easy: http://on.ted.com/Dave or http://on.ted.com/ePatientDave (The capital letters are important.)

      I’ll paste that in to the post – thanks!

      Reply
  2. Francois Meurgey says

    December 2, 2014 at 11:02 am

    Dear Dave,

    Wonderful and inspirational video. I have shown it and sent it to so many people. I personally volunteer in several European-level patient advocacy groups (such as the European MS Platform) and what you say about patient as “a third-person word” really resonates with me.

    Just FYI the Russian-language link above does not work (it sends to the Chinese version): I just noticed because I am in (frigid) Moscow right now and wanted to show it to Russian friends…

    All the best,
    Francois Meurgey
    Brussels

    Reply
    • e-Patient Dave says

      December 2, 2014 at 1:48 pm

      Merci, Francois – I corrected the link in the post; here it is for you: http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_debronkart_meet_e_patient_dave?language=ru

      Reply

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