Tag: patient advocate

Patient Beware: How to Avoid Medical Mistakes

Most people wouldn’t have any difficulty recognizing heart disease and cancer as the top causes of death in the United States. However, most folks are shocked to learn that the No. 3 cause of death in America is medical mistakes. In a famous paper published by the Institute of Medicine in 1999 titled “To Err…


How to Be a Patient Advocate

“I just wanted to tell you how important what you’re doing is,” the young cardiology resident at Oregon Health Sciences University said to me in a quiet voice. “Your husband’s lucky to have you.” I could barely swallow the lump in my throat. My husband and I had spent the past 11 days in the…