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Healthcare Powered by You: Self-Advocacy in a Broken System
Healthcare Powered by You: Self-Advocacy in a Broken System
Healthcare advocate Joyce Griggs shares her journey from navigating her partner’s dangerous post-surgery crisis to founding United States of Healthcare, a platform empowering patients to become their own advocates. Drawing on 20 years in healthcare communications, Joyce opens up about the assumptions that nearly caused tragedy, and why self-advocacy is as essential a life skill as financial literacy. She explains how preparation, asking the right questions, and challenging assumptions can cha...