What is patient advocacy? Should it be a business? Is there a real need for it? In this “discussion” episode of Health Fail, our colleague Felicia Betancur Joubert joins us to discuss what patient advocacy really is and why failures in healthcare have led to a need for advocacy.
Resources:
- #HCLDR Twitter Thread on Patient Advocacy: https://twitter.com/nickisnpdx/status/1115746286811017216?s=21
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_advocacy
- NIH: https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/patient-advocate