Ask the Patient
Sylvie LeotinHealthcare misses critical bedside intelligence buried in patient experience. As a cancer survivor, systems design expert, and writer, I share insights into risks and vulnerabilities that current systems often overlook.
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What Clinical Metrics Miss About Patient Safety and Equity
From a hospital bed with a serious illness, I witnessed what healthcare metrics often overlook. As a cancer survivor and systems design expert, I began to notice how well-meaning systems can quietly fail—unseen errors, overlooked risks, and...
Why Does Healthcare Feel Like an Obstacle Course for Patients
Welcome to the inaugural post of “Ask the Patient.” As a cancer survivor who has experienced medical gaslighting, medical bias, negligent procedures, medical errors, unnecessary surgeries, and various other challenges at one of the nation's...
Seven Strategies to Fix Health Communication—From Patient Experience Research
During my cancer journey, I experienced a series of devastating communication breakdowns that led to misdiagnoses, treatment delays, unnecessary surgeries, and a great deal of preventable suffering. When I shared what happened during a trau...
What Patient Experience Reveals About Healthcare's Tech-Human Divide
I learned about my cancer diagnosis through an email from a leading cancer center. This moment, following twelve consecutive core biopsies and a brutally negligent procedure, highlighted everything that is wrong with modern medicine. As a t...
The Observer Divide: What I Learned as a Cancer Patient and Systems Designer
Crossing Healthcare’s Divide
In the sterile environment of an imaging-guided biopsy room, I discovered the true meaning of being a bridge builder. As I lay there during my twelfth biopsy—what should have been a routine procedure turne...
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