Learning My Role in My Own Patient-Centered Care

Learning My Role in My Own Patient-Centered Care

July 22, 2015

By: Kim Blanton, Winterville, North Carolina

What started out as a bad case of the flu 14 years ago became a journey of more than 100 emergency room visits and hospital re-admissions, countless lab tests and numerous specialists. I became a case study of what happens when lack of patient engagement meets up with uncoordinated care.
The good news is I also became a case study of what happens when health care providers and patients truly communicate and work together.

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