The Liz Army:
A blog
Patient. Patient advocate. Researcher. Student.
There are more than 500 posts here. Use this search to look for something specific. Good luck!
A note about my oldest posts: I began blogging about brain cancer in 2008, at age 29. I had no background or knowledge about healthcare when I started. Please excuse typos and other misconceptions. What you read here is me in real time, like a time capsule.
Is there such thing as too much information when it comes to our medical history?
Is it possible I provided too much information for my medical team? Yes, but I believe it better to share everything and leave it to the professionals to weed out extraneous details.
Guerrilla healthcare redesign: Support group materials edition
How might you use your skills to redesign a patient experience?
Empowering patients with a common language for palliative care
Giving people language for self-advocacy: While patients shouldn't be overwhelmed with clinical language, helping us understand what things like palliative care are and are not improves our ability to advocate for ourselves.