When Serious Illness Strikes
Four things you must know when serious illness strikes: Get Smart Fast. Get Organized. Stand Your Ground, Nicely. Always Follow Up. Read this article for detailed helpful hints.
When you’re diagnosed with illness or struggling to take care of a loved one, it is easy to feel overwhelmed and out of your depth.
But you don’t have to do it alone.
We’re here to help.
My name is Elisabeth Schuler. I’m the founder and CEO here at Patient Navigator LLC.
In 1998, while I was working for the U.S.Department of State and we had just returned from an overseas assignment, my two-year-old child was diagnosed with an inoperable brainstem tumor. The ground collapsed beneath me.
Suddenly, I was thrown into a completely unfamiliar universe.
I realized that I needed to educate myself quickly on every aspect of brain tumors.
Using the skills I’d mastered as a diplomat in my Foreign Service career, I got to work researching the disease, contacting pediatric brain tumor specialists across the country and learning how to communicate with medical professionals to get answers and results.
Thankfully, after consulting with doctors and making a treatment decision based on the best information we had, my child survived.
I’d been through an experience that nobody should have to go through – and I wanted to share what I had learned with other people trying to navigate the confusing, inefficient and stressful maze of our healthcare system.
But more than that, I wanted to give people the help and support they need during this difficult time in their lives.
That’s why I started Patient Navigator.
Our job is to find solutions and to overcome the obstacles you may face during your journey through illness or ageing so that you can focus on what matters most in your life. If you think you could use our help – or just want to see how we could help you – give us a call.
Four things you must know when serious illness strikes: Get Smart Fast. Get Organized. Stand Your Ground, Nicely. Always Follow Up. Read this article for detailed helpful hints.
Patient advocacy, or patient navigation, is gaining attention as an emerging profession, both in the media and in the popular lexicon, because it fills so many gaps in the current American health care system. This is especially true today as we continue implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is changing the landscape for consumers in how health care is delivered and paid for in this country.
Washington Post article about how patient advocates can help during Covid-19 and other situations. I’m very pleased to be included in my hometown newspaper!