We describe this as a coordination of your entire healthcare team. This includes the patient/client and all of their healthcare team (i.e doctors, specialists, family members, hospitals, pharmacists, nurses, social workers, rehabilitation specialists, etc.). This is of vital importance as inaccurate information passed to any of the healthcare team can have devastating results. Proper coordination lessens the likelihood of preventable medical errors which are currently the 3rd leading cause of death in the US.

We all do. The truth is that the healthcare system grows more complicated; there is less time to ask healthcare provider questions; most don’t know all the questions to ask or how to proceed with the answers. You don’t know what you don’t know! This fact in combination with illness and all the emotions involved make it important to have a healthcare advocate, a champion, with the expertise to get the information you need to make your best care choices.