How to Humanize Healthcare

Following a pandemic that exposed disparities, and failures to patients with chronic disease, now is the time for lawmakers and the industry in the U.S. to rethink its approach to healthcare. On this episode: how to create supportive networks between a patient’s home team and their doctors, technology to improve patient-doctor connections, and empathy in healthcare.

Dr. Summer Knight shares her vision to improve quality of care and patient outcomes in her book, Humanizing Healthcare. Plus, hosts Terry and Dr. Bob break down the big decision from the FDA to approve a groundbreaking Alzheimer’s treatment. 

Hosts:

Terry Wilcox, Executive Director, Patients Rising

Dr. Robert Goldberg, “Dr. Bob,” Co-Founder and Vice President of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest

Guests:

Dr. Summer Knight, Author, Humanizing Healthcare

Nisha Trivedi, Patient Correspondent

Carmen Rose Fiallo, Patient Correspondent 

Links:

COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States

FDA Grants Historic Approval to Alzheimer’s Drug Designed to Slow Cognitive Decline

The Value Versus the Challenge Of Social Security Disability

What’s Legal About Cancer

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