Thursday, July 16, 2009
The Importance of a Patient Advocate
Kathy's experience brings home what families tell me over and over -- they learn from harsh experience that everyone needs a full-time advocate in the hospital (and at every major health care encounter). There are many reasons for this. Chapter 12 of The Life You Save talks about this in depth.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Welcome!
Dear readers:
Welcome to the blog of The Life You Save. This is your chance to ask me questions, make comments, and suggest your own lifesaving tips based on your experiences in the medical system.
I receive a lot of comments from knowledgeable people about the usefulness of my book. Here is one, from Dr. J. Anderson ("Andy") Thomson in Charlottesville, Virginia:
"I use your book daily. My practice has a lot of older folk with multiple medical problems or they have family whom they are the main medical advocate or one in a position of responsibility. Just this week a friend's father was to have major bladder surgery for a cancer that would require a new one made from intestine. She was very appreciative of the material I gave her about finding the surgeon, questioning him, dealing with her father in the hospital, etc. Much, much appreciate it."
That's what my book is all about: being helpful to patients and their caregivers.
So let me hear from you!
Patrick Malone
Welcome to the blog of The Life You Save. This is your chance to ask me questions, make comments, and suggest your own lifesaving tips based on your experiences in the medical system.
I receive a lot of comments from knowledgeable people about the usefulness of my book. Here is one, from Dr. J. Anderson ("Andy") Thomson in Charlottesville, Virginia:
"I use your book daily. My practice has a lot of older folk with multiple medical problems or they have family whom they are the main medical advocate or one in a position of responsibility. Just this week a friend's father was to have major bladder surgery for a cancer that would require a new one made from intestine. She was very appreciative of the material I gave her about finding the surgeon, questioning him, dealing with her father in the hospital, etc. Much, much appreciate it."
That's what my book is all about: being helpful to patients and their caregivers.
So let me hear from you!
Patrick Malone
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