Advocating for Patients & Doctors
It’s human nature that we expect others to understand our own experiences.
As a vulnerable patient, you expect providers to listen, talk in a way you understand and advocate for you.
As a doctor, you focus on diagnosing and treating your patient, but feel limited by the systems around you.
The Patient.Doctor’s goal is to help patients and doctors to improve healthcare delivery, one patient, one doctor, one residency, one health system at a time.
Improving Healthcare through patient advocacy, blogging and professional speaking.
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Patient Advocacy
Confused about your care?
Not sure even what to ask your doctors or providers?
Do you feel like you leave appointments without questions being answered?
Wondering if your doctors ever speak to one another?
Having trouble getting your family all on the same page about your care?
I can help.
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Blog Posts
These blog posts bridge the experiences of patients and doctors.
What makes this blog unique among healthcare blogs is my deliberate attempt to balance the experiences of patients along with those of providers.
My intent is to show what patients and families may experience despite the genuine efforts of hardworking providers while also trying to show some of the nuances of health systems that impact delivery of care by providers.
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Professional Speaking
Let me engage your team in topics or policies that are often “difficult” like safety, delirium, healthcare costs.
I can share my experiences with medical errors as a provider and contrast that with bad outcomes I had as a patient (receiving someone else’s medication —> respiratory arrest, etc.)
As a long-time educator, former Assistant Dean of Clinical Educaton, and former chair for the Section of Medical Education, I can create a safe learning environent, address core competencies, and hopefully change practice— through in person talks or zoom.