In Safer Medical Care for You and Yours— Four Gifts to Enable Involved, Informed and Responsible Car...
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In Safer Medical Care for You and Yours— Four Gifts to Enable Involved, Informed and Responsible Care, it is my intent to convey a simple message — it is my wish that each of us be involved in, informed about and responsible for our healthcare and thereby positioned to enable and receive safer medical care. To make this wish come true, I provide four tools for safer medical care as gift examples: 1) My (Unique and Very) Personal Medical Record — a gift example. This is an example of a personalized organized, accurate, legible and up-to-date medical record that will position you to enable and receive safer medical care. 2) My Chief Complaint (my story — why I am here today) — a gift example. This gift teaches you to efficiently and effectively convey your acute (today) healthcare story to the better angels assembled to do their best for you in your time of need. 3) My (Unique and Very) Personal HealthCare Values — a gift example. This example will assist you to organize and personalize your very special and unique healthcare wishes so they may be conveyed and followed should complex circumstances require. Many find comfort and peace in this process. 4) My Personal Professional Patient Advocate (My P3A) — a gift example. This example describes a special relationship between you and a healthcare savvy individual in your life — who, as your personal advocate, is there to assist an intricate and vulnerable you (and yours) navigate complex healthcare circumstances. My message — involved in, informed about and responsible for — is simple. It is on point. All too real charismatic stories in Safer Medical Care for You and Yours illuminate its significance to you. Although my message is not rocket science, I am confident that it will, along with the science and art of the better angels who care for you so well, assist you and yours find a pathway to safer medical care. Dr. Mike White
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