The Patient Activation Network Podcast is live at the 2017 Planetree International Conference on Patient-Centered Care. Our first guest is Tanya Detrik. Tanya is an author, speaker and grandmother of a special needs child. She is here to share her personal story with us today. “Every new life has the potential to make life new,” […]
“It’s really gratifying now to see companies, for the first time in many cases, realize that there is an opportunity to work hand-in-hand with patient leaders,” David Goldsmith reflects on the different use cases for patients to help solve complex challenges across healthcare. “These companies view the patient leaders as true partners in helping them […]
“There was a mistake in the schedule and you were assigned a patient who didn’t like to be cared for by black people,” discusses author and Family Nurse Practitioner, Nonye Aghanya MSc,RN, FNP-C about the first time she encountered racism when immigrating to America from Nigeria. “I didn’t understand the whole concept of racism coming from […]
“How do we support somebody that we care about? What do we say? How do we do it?” Dr. Ritu said in reference to how we act when a loved one is diagnosed with a medical condition. “People do one of two things. People do too much and almost overwhelm the individual or they do […]
“If I had cancer in my arm I would never be embarrassed to tell anyone about that, but instead I have active disease in my digestive tract and we’ve been taught that you don’t talk about that,” Jackie Zimmerman reflected on her ulcerative colitis diagnosis. “Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a real disease. It is […]
“CS Lewis said, isn’t it funny how day to day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different,” laughed Gordon Jones, PhD, in referring to change, “except for the healthcare. We would still be on pen and paper if it wasn’t for the legislative change.” This is the climate that Dr. Jones and […]
“According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), in 2015 the United States spent 3.1 trillion dollars on healthcare. 10% of which, or 3.1 billion dollars, in that one year was spent on prescription drugs,” explained author Dr. Barrie Levitt. “If we want to make the cost of healthcare less expensive in the United […]
“In the field of immunology, the big, bad wolf is autoimmune disease,” said Dr. Chase Spurlock, Founder and CEO of IQuity. IQuity is working to provide physicians tools to make early diagnosis possible in difficult neurological conditions like MS. The ability to diagnosis autoimmune disease early can have a positive impact on both patient outcomes […]
At 3 AM on a July 2012 morning, I lay helpless on an emergency room cot, unable to experience any emotion other than fear and the physical sensations that racked my body. My extreme levels of anxiety did not cease; my body showed me no mercy, perhaps because my racing mind did not extend that courtesy to […]
“There is this moment where I was in the middle of New York City, I really imagined myself as the person at the cocktail party where somebody would say there is Kate Milliken in the corner. She’s single, she’s 35. It just didn’t work out for poor Kate.” Kate Milliken, Founder and CEO of MyCounterpane.com, […]