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Every Patient's Advocate

http://trishatorrey.com

Patient empowerment, advocacy, medical consumerism and tools to navigate the dysfunction of American health care.

Added on: Feb 9th, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Trisha Torrey
Listed in: General Health How-To
Tags: speaker healthcare misdiagnosis patient advocate patient safety health consumerism

Recent Posts

Mom – Free of Her Alzheimer’s Prison

Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 08:14 in family, death, alzheimer's, patient empowerment

My mother, Betty Louise (Stetson) Torrey, died this week. I’m sad, mourning our loss, and grieving, of course. But I also rejoice! Because more than a decade of Alzheimer’s disease had ravaged her brain, and her body, and she was not ...
H1N1 Swine Flu Rears It’s Ugly Head – Time for Help and Truth

Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 10:22 in self help, medical news, vaccines, vaccinations, general news, patients, about.com, patient safety, follow the money, patient empowerment, medical commentary, patient tools

There’s so little I can say about swine flu that hasn’t already been said. And to that point, I’ve already said plenty! In fact, I’ve said it all on my About.com Guide to Patient Empowerment, so I figure it’s best jus...
Quick Action Needed! To Get Your Medical Test Results…

Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 06:05 in medical, self help, medical tests, electronic medical records, medical commentary, patient tools, healthcare quality, health medical consumerism, health data rights

Have you ever been frustrated trying to get copies of your medical test results? It may be because there is an existing law that says you can only get them from the doctor or other provider who ordered them for you. That law is yet another example ...
AdvoConnection Gets Ready to Launch – Outreach to Patients

Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 14:39 in health, medical, self help, patients, patient safety, patient advocacy, patient empowerment, patient advocates, medical commentary, patient tools, healthcare quality, medical errors mistakes misdiagnosis

Hard at work we’ve been! And AdvoConnection, a dream of mine for several years, is getting ready to launch. Since beginning my advocacy work almost five years ago, and being highly visible on the web, I hear from desperate patients on an almo...
Autism and MMR Link, Parents Fooled, Follow the Money, Then LISTEN

Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 08:37 in health, media, self help, autism, vaccines, matt lauer, general commentary, mmr, andrew wakefield, follow the money, patient advocacy, patient empowerment

I’ll begin this post by saying that I understand the basics — that many parents of children with autism believe that autism was brought on by vaccines. And that scientific research has over and over again proven that link does not exist...
The AMA, Healthcare Reform – And a Good Chuckle

Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 11:00 in healthcare reform, politics and medicine, doctor communication

Forwarded to me by a dear friend (thanks Dot!)… so I share it with you. Wish I could attribute it, but I have no idea where it came from. If you know, let me know, too. Credit where credit is due. The American Medical Association Weighs in o...