Technician to Teachers: Bridging the Gap Between Health and Care—A Patient's Perspective

12-14-2017 21:54

Melissa Thomason, Pinetops, NC —When I was 28 years old everything I thought I knew about myself ripped apart in a moment. I was standing in a shower on the OB floor of my local hospital and, with no warning, I felt like fire was poured over my head. Pain surged through my teeth. My jaw tightened and then, suddenly, everything inside of me CRUNCHED. I was 35 weeks pregnant that day and the birth I’d planned for, the life I’d planned for, changed forever. 

In this presentation, learn what it was like for a “Type A” public school teacher to survive a Type A aortic dissection and to become a champion for patient-centered health care teams around the country. Listen to a patient’s passionate perspectives on culture, care coordination, cost, and how to build meaningful and lasting engagement in your practice or institution. “Are you the technician or the teacher?” Come find out. 

Melissa Thomason is a patient and family advisor who serves on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Family Medicine, on Patient and Family Advisory Councils in North Carolina, and on working groups around the country. She is a passionate advocate who has shared her story with thousands of health care workers around the world and who has made the vital work of patient-centered care her life’s mission. 

A former public school teacher, she spends her time now championing the cause of collaboration with patients and families, caring for her father, and being a mother to her nine-year-old son, Nate.

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