When you go to your physician’s office, or the laboratory for blood work or radiology for x-ray’s, do you feel like you’re an imposition? Like you’re an inconvenience to the clinician or healthcare staff? As if your being there is interrupting the personal conversation they are holding with others in their workplace? You are notContinue reading “We Need to Put the Care Back in Healthcare”
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10 Ways to Be Your Own Patient Advocate
What is a patient advocate? A simple definition of a patient advocate is this: one who helps the patient by asking the right questions and in turn, getting the appropriate care at the right time. A patient advocate can be someone who is paid or unpaid, but usually has some type of medical background andContinue reading “10 Ways to Be Your Own Patient Advocate”
“So you work in a hospital – are you a nurse?”
“…without laboratory testing, the clinician cannot make a definitive diagnosis.”
