IN MEMORIUM: A light for patient advocacy goes out, too soon

This post by Chelsea Rice first appeared on Athena Insight on August 19, 2016. “There’s no reason that only 4.75% of outpatient visits and .08% of my hospitalizations are spent actively treating my condition. There’s no reason that I spent two solid months (1540 hours, 64.2 days) of this year waiting instead of healing. So, please, stop wasting my time. Stop wasting my life.” — Jess Jacobs “On Wasting My Time — The Numbers“ Jessica “Jess” Jacobs, a 29-year-old healthcare IT professional and patient, wrote these words in her blog in November 2014. In the post, she categorized the relative usefulness of the time she had spent in the healthcare system that year, in a range of specialty visits, phone calls, and hospitalizations. Like much of her writing, it was a depressingly honest account of the state of today’s patient experience: somewhere closer to useless than useful. View image on Twitter   Follow Jess Jacobs @jess_jacobs Happy Unicorn Day to my fellow Unicorns! @MandiBPro@HealthcareWen @TiffanyAndLupus @MsWZ #UnicornMoment 8:39 AM – 9 Apr 2016 Retweets           99 likes             Jacobs died on Saturday, August 13. Her passing was a shock to many in the healthcare world, from policy makers to clinicians to patient advocates to journalists who had followed her story on social media for years. On Sunday, her friends and online communit...
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