A new book The Empowered Patient by Julia Hallisy is making waves in the patient advocacy community. The book has some fantastic postive reviews on Amazon.com. Its intended to give you hundreds of tips for navigating your way through the complex and sometimes baffling world of being a health care consumer. Anyone who is a Crohn's or Ulcerative Colitis sufferer or is a Crohn's Disease Caregiver knows how hard it can be to get a proper diagnosis, a empathetic doctor, avoid billing mixups, and get the right treatment. I think this book looks like it really could help.
Here is a National Public Radio interview with Juila Hallisy that you can listen to where she talks about her experience with medical mis-diagnosis that ultimately lead her to write the book.
Here is a National Public Radio interview with Juila Hallisy that you can listen to where she talks about her experience with medical mis-diagnosis that ultimately lead her to write the book.
