A-Fib Patients’ Best Advice #10: Strive to be Your Own Healthcare Champion
‘Become your own
best patient advocate.’
John Thorton from Sioux Falls, SD, about ignoring the bad advice: “The local MDs, cardiologists, EPs, and other local specialists, all told me stuff like: “It is just anxiety,” and “You just need to learn to live with it”. Which was completely WRONG.
Michele Straub, Salt Lake City, Utah, encourages you to be more active in your own treatment plan: “Do not take ‘this is as good as it gets’ as an answer—do your own research about what’s possible. Take a co-leadership role with your doctor.”
Joan Schneider, Ann Arbor, MI: “I was so desperate for answers I started searching on-line. My jaw hit the table. [I said to myelf…] ‘How could my physicians not explain these things to me?’ Once I was able to really comprehend my future, I was able to make things happen.
Seek Support—Our A-Fib Support Volunteers: To become your own best patient advocate, it helps to have someone you can turn to for advice, emotional support, and a sense of hope that you can be cured. Our volunteers are just an email away, see our article, Our A-Fib Support Volunteers.
Make Things Happen: Become Your Own Best Patient Advocate!
‘The Top 10 List of A-Fib Patients’ Best Advice” is a consensus of valuable advice from fellow patients who are now free from the burden of Atrial Fibrillation. From Chapter 12, Beat Your A-Fib: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Cure by Steve S. Ryan, PhD.