If we value the patient voice in shaping the future of healthcare, why do we still struggle to hear it in the present?
Experts in our cancer, yet strangers in our own healthcare conversations.
As patient advocates, we are often called experts in our cancer areas, we contribute to research, challenge policy, sit at decision making tables and ask clinicians to listen to the patient voice. Yet, when we return to our own doctors, some of us find ourselves having to fight to be heard. Why?
