Trisha Torrey is Every Patient’s Advocate, a mission she began after a heinous misdiagnosis of cancer in the summer of 2004. Told she had a rare and aggressive lymphoma and had only months to live without chemo, she instead used her wits and chutzpah to prove the two confirming reviews of her biopsy were — wrong.
What she learned is that American healthcare is not about health or care. It’s about sickness and money. Almost 100,000 people die each year because of medical errors and misdiagnosis. Had she actually started chemo, she might have been simply a statistic.
Of course, had she actually gone through chemo and survived it, she would have been declared cured of an incurable disease. And the very doctors who were wrong would have been declared heroes.
Today she reaches out to us in a variety of ways to teach us to be “guerrilla patients.” You can read her newspaper columns, or her patient empowerment site at About.com, you can hear her host HealthLink on Air on the radio, or you can attend one of her talks or presentations as she speaks at events across the US.
Read her full-blown misdiagnosis story here.
Reach Trisha at: contact (at) epadvocate.com
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patients.about.com Trisha is the Patient Empowerment expert at About.com |
| Every Patient’s Advocate website | www.EveryPatientsAdvocate.com Columns, speaking engagements and more |
| DiagKNOWsis | www.diagKNOWsis.org Tools to help patients research their diagnoses |
| AdvoConnection | www.AdvoConnection.com Patients can find advocates to help them navigate the medical care maze |
| All Experts from About.com | www.AllExperts.com Find help with internet medical research |
| Battling for Health / Blog about Battling for Healthcare | advocate.battlingforhealth.com More tips and tools for patients to navigate healthcare |
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| AdvoConnection Blog | AdvoConnection.wordpress.com Keep up with development, launch and use of the AdvoConnection website |
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| Syracuse Post Standard | www.Syracuse.com Trisha’s columns appear here bi-weekly |
| Knoxville News Sentinel: WELL | http://www.wellknoxville.com Trisha’s columns appear here bi-monthly |
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| HealthLink on Air | www.HealthLinkonAir.org Trisha’s weekly radio show, includes podcasts from this location |
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| Linked In | Linked In Profile Page |
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Thank you, thank you, and thank you!!! For all that you do, for all the information that you put out, and for speaking out against what I believe to be a morally and ethically bankrupt medical community. I just wanted to take the time to thank you for all the good that you do. From the bottom of my heart, Thank you.
Thank you, thank you!!! For all that you do, for all the information that you put out. I truly believe all of our medical community to be both morally and ethically bankrupt to the core. Been there done that and after watching my husband of 44 years - whom I had known all of my life, die from ARROGANCE & IDIOCY - I’ve had enough - I refuse to put my life in danger for the growth in revenue in their pockets or the pockets of the so called “caring” hospitals - who cover up - shut up and lawyer up every time there is a “never event or HAI” I don’t believe in the medical community in America. I’ve seen the statistics and I watched one of their mistakes die a little every day for 5 years - 5 months and 5 days - what I’d give to be able to relieve Thursday, January 31st, 2002 again -I can assure you - I’d sell everything I owned and go to France or Austrailia or anywhere except the United States to find a competent surgeon to perform his procedure. I honestly feel Willie would be alive today if I had only known the history of the “professional” and the “facility” in question.
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