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* [http://khn.org/news/emergency-room-frequent-flyers/ Forty-year-old Jeremie Seals] was assigned a care manager and a regular physician that helped reduced his 15 ER visits and 11 hospitals stays to 4 ER visits and 4 hospitals stays the following year. (7/10/13)
 
* [http://khn.org/news/emergency-room-frequent-flyers/ Forty-year-old Jeremie Seals] was assigned a care manager and a regular physician that helped reduced his 15 ER visits and 11 hospitals stays to 4 ER visits and 4 hospitals stays the following year. (7/10/13)
 
* [http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/03/patient-reflection-healthcare-system.html Virginia Hunt's] story illustrates the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of our healthcare system that addresses conditions and often lacks capability to treat the overall patient. (3/3/13)
 
* [http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/03/patient-reflection-healthcare-system.html Virginia Hunt's] story illustrates the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of our healthcare system that addresses conditions and often lacks capability to treat the overall patient. (3/3/13)
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* [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/the-heroism-of-incremental-care Bill Haynes was fifty-seven years old, and he suffered from severe migraines for almost four decades. How an incremental approach improved his life from physician author Atul Gawande. (1/23/17)] 
  
 
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'''Living Conditions'''

Revision as of 09:38, 3 February 2017

To truly understand managing health, we need to hear first hand from patients to relate, emphathize and learn how to improve.

Aging In Place

Addressing Non-Medical Determinants

Behavior

Caregivers

End of Life

Fragmented Healthcare System
Lack of a coordinated, patient centered approach

Health Insurance Issues

Health Care Professionals As Patients

Health Literacy

High-Need, High-Cost Patients

  • Rebecca Bryson has 10 different medical conditions and depends on 13 health care providers. Her life improved when a program funded a Clinical Care Specialist and the creation of a Shared Care Plan.
  • Forty-year-old Jeremie Seals was assigned a care manager and a regular physician that helped reduced his 15 ER visits and 11 hospitals stays to 4 ER visits and 4 hospitals stays the following year. (7/10/13)
  • Virginia Hunt's story illustrates the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of our healthcare system that addresses conditions and often lacks capability to treat the overall patient. (3/3/13)

Incrementalism in Managing Health

Living Conditions

Living With Chronic Conditions

Medical Decisions - Quality of Life vs. Aggressive Interventions

Loneliness

Mental Health Treatment

Paying For High Cost Treatments

Patient Goals

Primary Care Physicians - Managing Health

Shared Decision Making

Stress Of Monitoring After Cancer Treatments

Support System Beyond Spouse and Family