Tag: patient advocacy

What You Are Allowed To Ask For

DMUSA News

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is a peculiar politeness that descends on people in medical and dental settings. Adults who would happily query a restaurant bill will sit silently in a chair while something hurts, because the person doing it is busy, and seems to know what they are doing, and it feels rude to interrupt. So they say nothing. They get through it. And then they quietly decide never to come back. I have been on the other side of this, and I can tell you that no clinician wants that. A patient…

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Your Brain Has Been Working Overtime

DMUSA News

Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Denise Billen-Mejia, MD (retired), Consulting Hypnotist     If you live with chronic pain, you have probably been told — or at least made to feel — that something is wrong with you. That your body has broken down. That your brain is misfiring. That the pain is somehow your fault, or in your head, or something you simply have to manage. I want to suggest a different way of looking at it. Your brain has been working overtime. Here is what I mean by that. Pain is not…

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When Profits Overshadow Patients: The Human Impact of Pharma Strong-Arming

Wendy Bjork

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Welcome to the latest episode of Unlocking Your Greatness with Wendy Bjork.  Wendy is an international bestselling author, nationally syndicated columnist, inspirational speaker and founder of HeartsOfWellness.com.  Her mission is to empower women navigating Multiple Sclerosis to build a strong Foundation of Wellbeing: One Whole-istic™ Step at a Time.   She understands this journey well, as she has been living with Multiple Sclerosis for over three decades, since the age of 15.  She has been inspired to lead other women on a healing path after realizing the gaps in care that…

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What Happened to the US Medical System?

Wendy Bjork

Reading Time: 3 minutes  Welcome to the latest episode of Unlocking Your Greatness with Wendy Bjork. As an international bestselling author, inspirational speaker and founder of heartsofwellness.com, it is my mission to empower women feeling lost in the medical system who want a holistic approach to their life. To feel HOPE: harmony, options, peace and empowerment to help others along the way.   Are we being left in the dark when it comes to healthcare?   We’ve heard many times that America’s bloated, Kafkaesque healthcare system is collapsing. It’s been used to describe the…

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