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My Health Counts! Partnering with Your Doctor

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My Health Counts: Partnering with Your Doctor focuses on building and growing your relationship with your doctors and other health care professionals. The importance of establishing workable goals and taking the first steps to wellness is stressed.

The My Health Counts! series is hosted by Susan Hunt. Susan Hunt began her broadcast career in Buffalo, New York, first as a radio news and sports reporter for WGR-AM radio and subsequently as Sandy Beach's news sidekick on WHTT-FM. However, it was her stint as co-host of PM Magazine that, to this day, resonates with Western New York audiences. Since then, Susan has hosted and produced numerous TV programs related to important health issues.
 

Susan is joined by patient advocate and writer, Trisha Torrey and physician, Dr. Michael Edbauer.
 

Trisha Torrey is a newspaper columnist, radio talk show host, About.com patient empowerment expert, blogger, author and dynamic speaker, is Every Patient's AdvocateSM.

For more information about Trisha, click here.

Michael Edbauer, DO is the Medical Director for the Catholic Independent Practice Association of Western New York (CIPA) and Vice President of Medical Affairs for Home Care and Primary Care for the

Catholic Health System in Buffalo.

 
 

Essential messages to take away from My Health Counts! Partnering with Your Doctor include:

    • Many people don't have a close relationship with their doctors anymore. Finding the right doctor can be tough in a confusing health care system, and the journey can leave some people feeling uneasy about the care that they receive.
    • Most doctors are pressed for time these days and patients feel like they don't have time to really talk and ask their doctors questions. Rushed doctor visits can leave people with lingering concerns about their treatments or medications, or not having fully explained their symptoms.
    • Your professional health care providers are one half of the health-care team.
    • Understanding the role everyone plays in the system, including your need to take personal responsibility for your health, can help you improve the relationship with your doctor and other members of this medical support system.
Your doctor is the expert on medical care, but you are the expert on yourself. Working together you'll find the best solution.
 

For information about program 2, Self-Management, click here

For information about program 3, Quest for Quality, click here
 

 

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