More Happy Times in Healthcare (eDoc)

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Positive Stories about the Healthcare System from Real People

When thinking about your health and your vision for your health, it may be helpful to identify “happy times” or “happy things” that you associate with your own healthcare experiences. Focusing on positive healthcare experiences will help you view your future healthcare situations through a positive lens, making you a strong healthcare consumer, one who expects positive outcomes.

Stories and Shared Experiences

This eDoc is organized around key stories that recount significant positive events in the lives of eleven patients. Each story describes the patients encounter with the healthcare system and healthcare providers, the challenges that the patient faced, and how the patient successfully managed the challenge. A positive attitude and being proactive on the part of the patient were key in each case. The stories reflect the need for every one of us to be responsible for our own healthcare. We should not feel that we can “turn over” control of our health, hence our lives, to a doctor or any other healthcare professional. While health care professionals are the experts we need on our team when we are ill, we need to be responsible for our health on a continuing basis. As, as with any other team member, we need to hold our physicians and other clinicians accountable for the work they are doing for and with us.
Brief descriptions of positive experiences are included between each of the eleven key stories. The brief descriptions were submitted by real patients as part of a web-based survey. There was a clear pattern in the 2,000 positive submissions that were received to the web-based survey. The experiences are divided, between stories into nine topic areas. They are:

Hospital Helpers
Health Plans are Not Always Bad Guys
Little Things Mean A lot
Listen to Me
Tell Me…..Slowly
Make It Easy on Me
Doctors Making a Difference
Going the Extra Mile to Make a Patient Smile
Really Nice Nurses

Product Details:

Page Count: 53
Format: Adobe PDF file
Delivery: Digital Download
Author: Dr. Ruthann Russo

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