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Article: Survival instincts propel 'difficult patient' to insist on quality care.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- September 25, 2008
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Michelle Mayer had to become a "difficult patient" before she could get her physicians to accurately diagnose the disease that was destroying her health (see also University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
And once the diagnosis was made, she had to continue to be what many physicians describe as "difficult" before she could get the best treatment for scleroderma, a chronic autoimmune disease in which hardening of the skin is a major element.
Mayer, a research assistant professor of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, writes about her experiences as a patient in the September issue ...