Piano teacher Mark Miller uses Skype to meet the needs of disabled students around the world. I don't know if I was more excited by this story of a stroke patient

When Kay Breslin, one of Miller’s former local students suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed on one side, she never thought she would play music again. But a chance encounter with Miller inspired a friend of Breslin’s to encourage her to try again, with the use of her functional hand. Miller had said he could write some arrangements for her.

“I didn’t want to do it,” Breslin says from her home in Chicago. “I didn’t think it would sound like anything . . . and then my friend commissioned Mark to write some arrangements for my birthday. It was the beginning of something wonderful. It’s brought something back into my life that was very precious.”

Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (@dailyemerson) April 18, 2013

It's still hard for me to imagine a world without handwriting, but this video from BBC and its emphasis on nostalgia make me wonder if insisting on handwriting will someday prevent us from realizing and appreciating new forms of communication and intimacy.

Demonstration of a remarkable prosthetic device controlled by an iPhone.

The Atlantic brought the topic of communicating with your doctor electronically. Not long after, Bertalan Mesko's TEDx talk argued for a future in which doctors and patients could Tweet and touch.

And yesterday, Dr Atul Gawande got a range of opinions at Twitter, asking "Should doctors Friend patients on Facebook? Should they text patients?" I've captured a broad range of the responses he received at Storify.