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Mighty Casey (M Casey Quinlan) was born in 1952 and died on April 25th, 2023. On May 24th, 2024, family and friends spread Casey’s ashes in the Gulfstream of the Atlantic Ocean near Stuart, Florida. You can learn much about Casey in the Journal of Participatory Medicine’s tribute, An Extraordinary Voice Expressed Through Humor: A Tribute to Casey Quinlan.

Health Hats (Danny van Leeuwen) obtained ownership of this website URL, MightyCasey.com, from her estate to house and curate, the back catalog of Casey’s podcast Healthcare is Hilarious, and other media from Casey’s long career. Kayla Nelson, a Health Hats, the Podcast’s production team member, nursed Casey’s severely disabled WordPress site to recovery for this transition. We will spend the next six months adding content, increasing the site’s accessibility, and disseminating Casey’s wisdom wherever the spirit moves anyone.

We will operate the site under a Creative Commons (CC) license, enabling reusers to remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only. You must license the modified material under identical terms. Please let me know. [email protected]. Material on this site created by others is theirs, and use follows their guidelines.

CC BY-NC-SA includes the following elements:

  • BY: credit must be given to the creator.
  • NC: Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted.
  • SA: Adaptations must be shared under the same terms.

We welcome volunteers to help with the evolution, dissemination, and contributions to fund the maintenance and development. Details will be forthcoming.

Healthcare IS Hilarious

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Gloves off, no holds barred takes on creating “Goldilocks healthcare” – hot takes, cold takes, and just right takes on how to make healthcare, health research, health tech, and health policy better for humans, not just for somebody’s balance sheet. This is the “good trouble” zone. Dive in!

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My Book: Cancer for Christmas

The one that started it all – my pivot from major media into healthcare happened when I navigated cancer treatment after a diagnosis a couple days before Christmas. Fast, furious, and funny, it’s a trip through the healthcare carwash with plenty of tips on how to stay INSIDE the car during the process.

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