Negotiating the medical system can be challenging.  Often, we don’t know what questions to ask, what all the options are, as well as knowing what our rights are in the medical system.  How many times have you gone to see your doctor and left feeling there were more questions to be answered.  Some people can benefit from health advocates who have experience and can help patients navigate the system.

Directed in Advance was created by Laura Echegaray & Oxana Ostrovsky after their shared experiences of being a hospital patient as well as a patient-advocate dealing with the corporate medical gauntlet.   If you or a loved one have been in a hospital of late, this will resonate with you.  If you have not yet, then knowing what they will teach you could save your life.  After the initial emergency passes, the corporate hospital’s interests may not be in your best interests.  Common is over-testing, over-medication, and unwise or debatable procedures designed to run up the bill as well as to cover long-shot liability.  Then there is understaffing, incompetent staffing, and callous attendants already unhappy with their work situations. When and if you get the direct attention of a staff physician, you have to deal with allopathic bias.  All this while you are surrounded by neighborly pain, suffering, and disease.