YOU are Your Own BEST Medical Advocate!

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12 Adar, 5778

The reason that EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge advises you that "YOU are your own best advocate" is clearly explained in a recent New York Times article!!!

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Doctors, Revolt! By RICH JOSEPHFEB. 24, 2018

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Dr. Bernard Lown, 96, at home in Newton, Mass. A celebrated pioneer in cardiology, Dr. Lown laments that modern medicine too often disregards the healing aspect. CreditKatherine Taylor for The New York Times

Boston — The 96-year-old patient with pneumonia in Bed 11 was angry. “Do you really need to check my vital signs every four hours?” he asked.

Read the rest of the story here.

Many other demeaning things can happen in medical settings, and they're not pleasant to endure nor to overcome.

Read page 31 of

to learn why YOU are Your Own Best Medical Advocate, and how be one! 

Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fill your mind with information on how to meet your needs. The Global Resources section of the book is loaded with information about charitable organizations that can pay some or all of your specific medical bills, how to arrange medical flights, how to advocate for yourself, how to join clinical trials, how to acquire hospital gowns to protect your dignity, and LOTS more.

YOU are Your Own Best Medical Advocate!

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7 Av, 5777

The's an entire passage in the EMPOWER Yourself book entitled YOU are Your Own Best Advocate (page 31). If those words and the explanation which follows them don't  impress you enough, try reading this article about surgeons who operate on more than one patient in the same session:

Double-Booked: When Surgeons Operate On Two Patients At Once

Rickert and others advise patients who want to avoid overlap to ask detailed questions well in advance and to put their request in writing and on the consent form.

“If you say, ‘I want only you to do the surgery,’ doctors will typically do it,’” Rickert said. “They want the business.”

He also recommends asking, “Are you going to be in the room the entire time during my surgery?” and then repeating that statement in front of the OR nurses the day of surgery. “If the doctor’s not willing to say yes, vote with your feet.”

If a surgeon says he or she will be “present” or “immediately available,” a patient should ask what that means. It may mean that the surgeon is somewhere on a sprawling hospital campus but not in — or even near — your operating room.

There's enough information in that article to make your blood pressure rise startlingly high. Click the link above, and read every word.

And when you're ready to advocate for yourself even more than indicated in the advice above, read what's written in 

There are valid reasons that medical and mental health professionals recommend the book.

Read it. Benefit from it. EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 





Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fill your efforts with good sense and self advocacy.

Words to the Ever-Wiser: YOU are Your Own Best Medical Advocate!

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7 Tevet, 5777

Words to the Ever-Wiser: 

The other day my general practice doctor questioned why I'd requested a blood test for my hemoglobin and a few other blood chemistry levels following the unanticipated loss of blood during my hand surgery this month. 

I responded: "I used to be a medical coder. Anyone in that profession would know of the necessity to check blood levels following significant blood loss. Since follow-up surgery is scheduled in a few weeks from now, we need to know FAST that my body can safely endure it!"

He wrote the hall pass for the blood test after saying "Ah, you know what you're talking about."  I took it this morning as nurses carefully checked to fill each necessary vial with my red stuff. Hat tip to my dear friend and fantastic nurse, Terri , who reminded me to have the blood check done.

Life Lesson: Find out relevant facts about your medical situations and be proactive regarding your medical care. Doctors lack time to do much more than check boxes, patients and time slips. YOU are your own best advocate.

Read all about that in 

Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.





Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fill your life with good decisions.

Certified Comfort

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28 Cheshvan, 5773

Last night I received my certification as a Melavah Holim, a spiritual counselor for people facing chronic and/or life-threatening illness, from the TISHKOFET organization. 

The training added to my experience as a former Health Information Management professional within the US healthcare system, and as someone certified in Counseling Skills by Refuah Institute. There's more to my background in greeting emotional stress due to medical and mental health issues with compassion. 

With GOD's help my TISHKOFET-based interactions will help the people who seek me out. 

I feel uncomfortable sharing the info via the Internet, but I want potential readers of 

to know my skill set. And yes, the person who trained me owned a copy of the book before training began ;^ D

Compassion for the readers who need the book is on every page. That's why I sign off each blogpost with the phrase "Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism."

Save your sanity, time and money with the information inside. 

Learn how to tame the tigers of bureaucratic chaos, paper blizzards called insurance and medical records and more. 

You'll also find out about worldwide organizations willing to pay part or all of your medical costs, and about how to satisfy lots of other medical, mental health and disability necessities with minimal fuss and expense.




Buy your copy of the EMPOWER Yourself E-book or print edition, or a loved one's, today. Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge for a brighter look at your mental or medical health situation. 

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Face Your Medical, Disability or Mental Health problems with Dignity.

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It's MY Crisis! is all about keeping your cool and your control of a medical challenge. The back of the book's Resources section lets you know about services and items around the world that you might need along your healing/coping journey.

Today I'm delighted to share another bit of information with you. My journalism colleague Star Lawrence posted a terrific resource for empowering people at her blog about health issues! Patient School is the sort of patient-empowering resource I advocate for helping people to cope with medical crises. See http://healthsass.blogspot.com/search?q=%22patient+school%22

Way to go, Star! Power to the patient!

I'll share more information about Star in the near future. You'll be quite surprised how one friendly gesture leads to another. And another. That's what my book is all about: helping others to heal!

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Find out why so many people praise my book. Read it and learn to love life all over again.


To your good health, Yocheved