Patient Empowerment: How to be Your Own Best Advocate

Featured guests, Trisha Torrey, Guide to Patent Empowerment, About.com and quoted in this month’s “O” Magazine, and Regina Holliday, medical advocate and muralist, painter of “73 cents,” a depiction of challenges she faced to acquire her late husband’s medical records as he struggled with cancer (“73 Cents” also cover of British Medical Journal 9/09). Later in the month, the show will also explore how healthcare professionals are using social media to enhance communications with patients.