In this complicated healthcare system, it is easy to feel alone. The system is not designed to support your autonomy or to help you live your best life. It is designed to support its own health not yours however, obtaining the care you deserve is not impossible. Dr. Mike gives you direct simple to understand instructions on how to be an effective patient with the indirect goal of using you to teach them to be better providers, consider this a primer that you can take to your appointment and use to change the tone from feeling mercy to standing on more ground.
 
But be ready for you to grow as well as you learn how to not sabotage yourself in the shared decision-making process. Learn to know yourself, know your worth and have your worth seen by those in charge of your care. together we can make this a better system, one conversation at a time.