This is the second session in the Wellness Wednesday series Healthcare Navigation 101.
How has managing wellness become so difficult and expensive? Why is it so hard to get a diagnosis? Why are so many people in daily pain? How did we get here? Watch to learn the answers to these questions and more.
This is the second session in the Wellness Wednesday series Healthcare Navigation 101. How has managing wellness become so difficult and expensive? Why is it so hard to get a diagnosis? Why are so many people in daily pain? How did we get here?
Skip Points:
1:10 - What is Wellness Wednesday?
2:50 - Health: Beyond Age & Weight
6:50 - Why I Once Refused (GOOD!) Medical Advice
8:04 - The Big Gap: Why Health Literacy Matters
10:05 - A Systemic Problem
11:00 What IS Health Literacy?
12:10 - Why aren't these issues addressed?
13:20 - Daily Stressors
14:11 - Why everything is "in your head"
16:48 - Profit Motives & The Blurred Line between Healthcare & Industry
19:24 - Disclaimers won't save you
20:21 - Bias in Healthcare
21:55 - You are the expert on your body
24:24 - What can you do about Health Literacy issues?
28:20 - How this fits in the cycle of wellness
30:05 - Provider vs Patient Perspective
32:18 - Why Wellness Wednesday
34:35 - To be well... (and a bit on frozen shoulder)
36:50 - Next week: Health Insurance