WHIS Talks: Global Healthcare Thought Leaders Discuss Patient Empowerment and Shared Decisions

Can we take concepts in healthcare and make them customary practice to improve patient care and outcomes by advancing patient empowerment and shared decisions? I invite you to consider this question yourself after watching the video and reading the summary from this session of WHIS Talks as global thought leaders discuss patient empowerment and shared decisions. Terri Coutee: Nonprofit Leadership and Shared Decisions I am a two-time breast cancer survivor who had successful DIEP flap breast reconstruction. As a trained ESL instructor turned nonprofit leader after my second breast cancer diagnosis, I appreciate the need for clear communication and understanding of language. In cancer care, patients must quickly absorb concepts and terms they have no knowledge of or intended to know about. Curating communities and discussion based on evidence-based medicine is an important aspect of cultivating the patient process helping them to understand the plethora of terms to use in Continue Reading →