Check out my latest podcast with the Global Healthy Living Foundation. Thanks to my longtime health care policy and advocacy colleagues Robert Popovian and Seth D. Ginsberg for allowing me to do this!
We have so much opportunity to improve our health care system on many levels. We all know that. I am very focused on #sustainablemedicine. What does that mean? Health care that is efficient and can sustain itself. Health care delivery that ensures the patient is first and we avoid wasting resources, materials, time, energy and confusion to ensure optimal and sustainable medical care. Health care is so siloed. While my health care team is incredible, as my medical conditions became more complex before my kidney transplant (one year ago in two days) so many more people were involved and I was left thinking- who is on first for me? Who makes the right decisions for me or advises my husband and family when I cannot?
I was reminded of this again when my dad had a heart attack one week ago. Thankfully he did amazing and is home and back cooking and doing his normal activities (amazing!) But, he waited almost two days for a cardiac cath. Two days waiting is horrible when you don't know your diagnosis, but so is the wasted time, medical care, efficiency, and other unnecessary costs that could have been avoided.. had there been enough staff and connectivity to get his treatment done within at least a few hours after he was admitted with a heart attack happening during admission!
Check out my podcast and think a bit more about how we can make it better. How you can use your voice for patients. How you can make it better. The patient should be our purpose- for ANYONE in medicine. And our health care system- from the care provided, to the associations that drive patient outcomes, need to be sustainable. Smart planning. Focused goals. With the patient ALWAYS at the center. My company Affinity Strategies focuses on leveraging medical societies to improve care. Now more than ever it’s time to get focused on what matters, not all the things that don’t.
Reed Omary, MD, MS Jon Henderson Abigail Henderson Emma Rens Zoe Rothblatt Bryan Becker, MD, MMM, FACP, CPE John Friedewald Ryan Prior Kimberly Marsh Cathy Trzaskawka (Traz) Jaye Bea Smalley Nicholas Schumacher Nicholas DiSabatino
Helen Nelson Yolanda Becker
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