Better (April Meeting)

I gathered the following points from our discussion:

1) Patients need to advocate for themselves
2) Patients need to know how to advocate for themselves
(What questions are we supposed to ask?) Angela and Heather had good ideas. I encourage you to post the advice you gave us
3) Gawande's chapter on Birth was problematic with its empathises on Cesarean births.
4) We all have different expectations from our health care providers, for example- I love that my nurse practitioner also treats my parents so that she is aware of all of the health issues in my family. I also like that I can rat out my parents when they aren't following their instructions. Other people would hate this. It really depends on the individual Dr./Paitient relationship.
5) I noted that Gawande's explanation of positive deviance because it failed to mention that besides finding solutions from the front lines- there has to be valid comparisons to derive the deviance from.

I encourage all to post comments- I also would be willing to coordinate a second meeting to discuss Better with anyone who is interested.

Please vote for your preferred time for our May meeting above. Several people will be out of town for the May meeting. So let us know by voting below what works for you. Vote for any of the times you can make it and we will go with what ever dates has the most votes.

The May Slection, The Good People of New York, is already in at Bookworks.

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Monique