Patient stories Posts

Being a patient in today’s convoluted healthcare system can feel lonely and often infuriating. While it’s often hard to know who is responsible for that, recent headlines have revealed the healthcare system’s ugly underbelly: that …

Well. I'm a 52 year old retired physician, have been a pretty sick patient many times, and STILL today struggle with navigating the health system regularly. So if I am having trouble, how are young adults supposed to learn to do this? Sure, they're …

Let's face it, it totally sucks to have cancer, that's just a basic truth. Having people around you to help in various ways is really essential, whether it's family or friends or both. As I mentioned in the episode with Laura and Melissa, there are …

When you're a patient in the hospital, it's especially hard to see outside of your own sphere of discomfort and fear. It's as if the experience completely takes over your mind and it's hard to think of anything else. But sometimes an opportunity ari…

These first two regular episodes shed light on a day in the life of both a patient (Ep 1) and then a doctor (Ep 2). Because I fundamentally believe in the utmost significance of the doctor-patient relationship, I hope that these two episodes shed so…