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Become Your Own Healthcare Advocate
We know that in politics lobbyists hope to have influence on important political decisions. They are advocates for their specific causes. They are respected for their expertise and they keep focused on getting the results they desire. Wouldn’t you assume the same is true when applying the analogy to your own healthcare? When diagnosed with a chronic or life-threatening illness it’s important for you or a care partner to become knowledgeable about advocating for the best outcome from treatment.
Be Intelligent
No one expects you to take a crash medical school course after being diagnosed with an illness. It’s not necessary that you understand anatomy and physiology or cell biology. It is important that you know how your own body works. What are the unique features of your body? What illnesses and injuries have you had? What medications are you allergic to? How do you respond to medication? It’s also important that you have at least a basic understanding of your diagnosis. You should know the actual diagnosis and all its particulars. If your specific disease has stages, phases or degrees, know where you are on the continuum. Do enough research so that you aren’t buried in information on your first doctor’s visit.
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Making it Personal – Creating an Advocate List – Getting Referrals
An advocate is someone who believes in you and as a group, is your single most important resource for referrals. They may be existing customers, old school buddies, neighbours, family members, suppliers, associates – heck, maybe even your mother-in-law who doesn’t even know what you really do but loves you anyway!
Creating, building and working your advocate list are different from networking. Where networking is the building of business contacts (which is also a good thing) an advocate refers you because you’re you!
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The Advocacy of the National Arthritis Foundation
The National Arthritis Foundation was founded in 1984 as a charitable institution. It is actually the largest public organization of its like on its country of origin, Singapore. The foundation was established primarily to help all arthritis patients situated all over the world. They start with educating patients about their disease and the things that they can possibly do to prevent the symptoms from occurring.
Aside from information dissemination, the National Arthritis Foundation is also supporting arthritis research. They act as a management and coordinating body that works hand in hand with pharmaceutical organizations to push through arthritis research for the benefit of patients. They are also working closely with arthritis specialists to attain these goals.
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