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The Prepared Patient: How to Navigate a Broken Healthcare System with Dr. Terry Adirim

The Prepared Patient: How to Navigate a Broken Healthcare System with Dr. Terry AdirimNouveau31 min

Dr. Terry Adirim has spent nearly three decades seeing American healthcare from almost every angle: as a pediatric emergency physician, academic, public-health expert, and senior federal health official. In this conversation, she explains how her early experiences treating medically complex children led her from one-on-one medicine into health policy, including leadership roles at the Department of Defense. She also offers a rare insider perspective on how federal health policy actually gets ...