Comments on: A splash of cold water in Waterblogged.info’s face!

By: Alexa Fleckenstein M.D.

Alexa Fleckenstein M.D. — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:04:59 +0000

Wow, Jared – I wish EVERYBODY who screwed up just a little bit like you did would apologize so promptly and so gracefully!

May water live!

Alexa Fleckenstein M.D., physician, author.

By: Alexa Fleckenstein M.D.

Alexa Fleckenstein M.D. — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:17:00 +0000

We agree on the importance of conserving water – and perhaps even on using it for health advantage.

But I am NOT the “CEO, senior writer, and chief medical officer” of the ownyourhealth website. My co-author Roanne Weisman runs the site, so you could call her the senior writer and CEO. I am her friend and a doctor and a writer who sometimes uses that website as a platform. And it was Roanne Weisman who overcame a major health hurdle in midlife (my own health hurdles happened when I was a kid).

I have no bone in my body that would recommend me as a CEO. I am a water quack – if you want to call me that – with a board-certification in internal medicine.

Water greetings!

Alexa Fleckenstein M.D., physician, author.

By: ownyourhealth

ownyourhealth — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:34:02 +0000

Dear Jared,
Sorry to throw a bit of cold water on your recent, MOSTLY wonderful post about my co-author, Dr. Fleckenstein. But in fact you have mixed the two of us up. “Own Your Health” is actually my blog, which she occasionally contributes to. And while yes, she is a doctor, and a very talented one, I am the one who recovered from the stroke. I am a medical/science WRITER (see some of my books here: http://www.roanneweisman.com). So we are in fact two very different people, although good friends and the co-authors of two books.
Best,
Roanne