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Surprising Update on Healthcare Self Advocacy!

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Content provided by Karen Nickell. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Karen Nickell or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.
After listening to an episode of Itchy and Bitchy, a woman pushed for further testing and caught grade 1A ovarian cancer early—requiring only surgery. Karen revisits why self-advocacy saves lives, translating expert definitions into everyday guidance and offering practical steps: build a true partnership with your provider, keep detailed symptom and medication notes, ask clear questions about tests, risks, and costs, use reliable resources (not “Dr. Google”), consult your pharmacist, and keep your advance care planning up to date.
Visit our website itchyandbitchy.com to read blog posts on the many topics we have covered on the show.
  continue reading

204 episodes

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Manage episode 515625705 series 2949620
Content provided by Karen Nickell. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Karen Nickell or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.
After listening to an episode of Itchy and Bitchy, a woman pushed for further testing and caught grade 1A ovarian cancer early—requiring only surgery. Karen revisits why self-advocacy saves lives, translating expert definitions into everyday guidance and offering practical steps: build a true partnership with your provider, keep detailed symptom and medication notes, ask clear questions about tests, risks, and costs, use reliable resources (not “Dr. Google”), consult your pharmacist, and keep your advance care planning up to date.
Visit our website itchyandbitchy.com to read blog posts on the many topics we have covered on the show.
  continue reading

204 episodes

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