Empathy, a Critical Ingredient for Patient-Clinician Encounters

There’s so much room for the disparity, and it’s a tremendous ask of doctors and nurses in there wanting counter to try to overcome that huge societal weight of disparities.

Life as a Double Lung Transplant Survivor: A Cystic Fibrosis Patient Story

When I aged out of their insurance, I had to focus on getting a good job, getting something that I could support myself, and getting the insurance to pay for those medications.

My Psoriasis Story; Need for equitable diagnosis options and mental health concerns

Elected officials can help with the progression of treatments and cures for psoriasis by making sure that they allocate funding to the NIH and CDC

Improving clinician workflow to improve patient-centered care

Patient centered care is achievable, it might be difficult but it is attainable.

The Moral Life of Epinephrine in the United States

Medicine isn’t just about treating our bodies, by treating our bodies it lets us be full social, moral actors. Appreciating how complex and difficult that is I think could heighten the respective importance of medicine and medical care in some ways.

A Patient Story on Mental Health & Patient Advocacy

Change boil down to advocacy, you’re now sick and you have to advocate for yourself