Big Mistake: Knowing and Doing Better in Patient Engagement

Pushing back on policies favored by dying patients is a challenging endeavor, requiring tact, engagement, openness to bidirectional learning, and willingness to offer alternative solutions. It's easy to make missteps, especially in the age of social media. Holly Fernandez Lynch shares her exper...

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Main Author: Lynch, Holly Fernandez (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley 2023
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 2023, Volume: 53, Issue: 6, Pages: 2
Further subjects:B Policy
B Advocacy
B Social media
B Bioethics
B ALS
B patient engagement
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Summary:Pushing back on policies favored by dying patients is a challenging endeavor, requiring tact, engagement, openness to bidirectional learning, and willingness to offer alternative solutions. It's easy to make missteps, especially in the age of social media. Holly Fernandez Lynch shares her experience learning with and from the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) community, first as a caricature of an ivory tower bioethicist and more recently as a trusted advisor, at least for some. Patient-engaged bioethics doesn't mean taking the view that patients are always right, but even when disagreement continues, progress is possible if academics and patients recognize the unique expertise each has to offer.
ISSN:1552-146X
Contains:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1002/hast.1537