The Dose, Episode 7: Health Care in America: What It Means to Be Sick
Most of us take our health for granted. But when we get sick, our lives can be thrown into limbo. For the seriously ill, life is rarely the same again.
On the latest episode of The Dose, host Shanoor Seervai talks about a recent “Health Care in America” survey on the health care experiences of 1,500 patients who have had two or more hospital stays and visits with three or more doctors in the past three years. Survey codirectors Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Eric Schneider, M.D., senior vice president for policy and research at the Commonwealth Fund, discuss the findings: Americans with serious illness face helplessness, financial burdens, and care problems as they navigate the health system.
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