Patients and their families are key members of the health care team.
What they find
challenging are:
- How do they become active
participants in their health care?
- How do they ask their providers questions?
- What questions do they ask?
- How do they deal with barriers that arise?
- How do they advocate or speak up for themselves?
Finding Your Voice is a guide to dealing with the above challenges based on the first-hand experiences of the author.
This book focuses on:
- Knowing your rights as a patient in the health care system.
- Finding accurate information about health concerns.
- Finding your voice to become an active participant in your health care.
- Charting your own course to be involved in your health care decisions.
Dawn learned, through trial and error, how to best support her husband during his cancer journey. In this book Dawn shares their experiences and important lessons learned while navigating the complex health care system. This book is intended as a roadmap to guide those readers who are ready to embark on their own health care journeys.
Dawn lives with her husband, Allen, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She is a lifelong educator who continues to advocate for her husband and others. They have two grown sons.
A portion of the sale of this book will be donated to organizations doing research and education in multiple myeloma. Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the plasma cells (white blood cells) in the bone marrow.
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