Calling all patients,
Think of your healthcare like your bike. A bike suiting someone who’s 6’3” and 280lbs wouldn’t work for someone who’s 5’5” and 140. The purpose of a bike or a car of course is to take you from point a to b—that doesn’t change. But not everyone should ride the same bike, the same car, or have one-size-fits-all medical care. The problem is that various companies and governments are trying to replace and reinvent healthcare when the equivalent of applying some WD-40 and switching the chains is a better solution for most people.
Patients need guidance, straight facts, and brutally honest truths about the medical field. This is a direct, incremental solution rather than having a knight in shining armor swoop in and innovate everything for us in a timely manner. There are many issues with our current medical infrastructure to talk about but I’m here to teach patients all the tools and tricks to pedal through our healthcare system with ease. My experience with running a medical clinic and telemedicine platform is going to help us cover practical things like how to find a new primary doctor, learning how to be prepared for any kind of medical visit, understanding your health insurance, and knowing why you should care about big-picture developments like genetic therapies and CRISPR, for example.
As a patient, you deserve to be an advocate for your well-being; you have much more power than you realize. Knowing simple tips and lingo is the grease making all the gears of our evolving healthcare ecosystem turn well. Subscribe to Friendly Neighborhood Patient and learn how to be healthcare savvy in 2022 and beyond!
