Stephanie Arnold
AFE Survivor, USA
Title: The Patient Is Already Giving You the Diagnosis. Have patients? Be Patient.
Biography
Biography: Stephanie Arnold
Abstract
Patients sometimes know something is wrong with their health, yet clinicians aren’t always paying attention to what is being communicated. According to a General Internal Medicine study in 2020, physicians give a patient 11 seconds to speak before being interrupted. Sometimes drawing the wrong diagnosis. If a patient is able to advocate for themselves, they won’t be excluded from their healthcare decision-making. Research shows an extra 19 seconds with an educated consumer will save lives.For the past 8 years I have worked with clinicians and patients to understand the disconnect between advocating for yourself and being truly heard by your clinicians. I have hundreds of emails from people reaching out about how they knew something, they felt they weren’t heard, tried to share the information or regretted not speaking up. I’m here to change the conversation.You will never regret speaking up and being wrong, but you will if you don’t and you are dead right.