Becoming an Empowered Patient

This post is prompted by the interview of the book "The Empowered Patient" by Elizabeth Cohen.

I like the theme of such books because they are particularly appropriate for people with unusual conditions or diseases. Most of the time the treating physicians one goes to see have very little familiarity with your condition. In this context, it is particularly important to do extensive research on one's condition, actively look for the right physicians and learn to listen to one's body to channel physicians' help in the right direction.

In particular for complex conditions such as paralytic polio sequelae, one must break the treatment into different specialties and seek the help of each specialist to address the specific symptom. In this case one must act as a general manager who uses various specialists as consultants.

Indeed for the sufferers of the various sequelae and after effect of polio, this is particularly the case.