Reviews
Brian Marcotte
“The personal stories and lessons learned in Navigating Your Healthcare Journey highlight the importance of taking ownership of your health and of being your own advocate. It shares personal experiences of what can go wrong in this complicated, fragmented health care ecosystem when information isn’t readily available to get the right care at the right time in the right place. Navigating Your Healthcare Journey is a wake-up call for patients and caregivers to proactively seek out resources to help understand treatment options and where to go for care.”
BRIAN MARCOTTE
Past CEO and President, Business Group on Health
Former Honeywell Executive
David Nash, MD, MBA
“Everyone needs a navigator for our $4 trillion, impossibly complicated healthcare system. Sadly, most patients never get the personal attention they so deserve. Enter Edwards and Rothkopf with the best navigation system I have ever seen. Everyone will be a patient, and everyone needs to read this book.”
DAVID NASH, MD, MBA
Founding Dean Emeritus, Jefferson University College of Population Health
Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N Grandon Professor
Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Medical Quality and Population Health
Carol Oravec, RN
“The book is excellent, and I say that with the highest praise. It is easy to read, clear, and understandable. I liked the format—filled with enough information and great stories which are engaging and thought-provoking. I can’t tell you which chapter I liked the best because they were all great.”
CAROL ORAVEC, RN
Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD
“Navigating Your Healthcare Journey is essential reading for anyone trying to access, coordinate, or live with a chronic condition. I wish our healthcare system did not need such a book. Yet it desperately does. Our healthcare system is confusing, chaotic, and clunky, rather than coordinated and compassionate. Ms. Rothkopf and Dr. Edwards bring tremendous lived experience, profound passion, and compassion to help ensure those needing care can be as healthy as they can be. Their recommendations are grounded in science, ruthlessly practical, and provide deep insights for all.”
PETER PRONOVOST, MD, PHD
Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at University Hospitals
Former SVP, Patient Safety & Quality, Johns Hopkins
Founder and former Director of Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety & Quality
Mark Liponis, MD
“I know the authors personally, and I have been repeatedly impressed with their knowledge, experience, thoughtfulness, and their writing. In today's health landscape, almost everyone can benefit from a health advocate. It doesn't matter if you're educated, well-read, highly successful, wealthy, or poor. The medical system is an inscrutable behemoth that even perplexes medical professionals. Don't underestimate the value of an experienced advocate! Read this book and you'll be much better off for it. Best of health!"
MARK LIPONIS, MD
Internist at Stonover Health & Wellness
Former Chief Medical Officer at Canyon Ranch
Co-author of Ultraprevention
Author of Hunter/Farmer Diet Solution and Ultralongevity
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM
“The best that healthcare has to offer has never been better, while getting the best out of healthcare has never been harder. This book is an essential guide to anyone who is, was, or ever will be a patient; to anyone who has, or will ever have a loved one in need of urgent care. In short: all of us!”
DAVID L. KATZ, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM
Founder and CEO, Diet ID and the True Health Initiative
Past President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Founding Director, Prevention Research Center, Yale University - Griffin Hospital
Amanda Hopkins Tirrell, MBA, FACHE
“Navigating Your Healthcare Journey is filled with useful and understandable information about how our healthcare system works. This practical guide should be required reading for healthcare management students and medical, nursing, and other health professional students. It is refreshing to see things from the view of the patient and understand in human terms the challenges they face with our healthcare system each and every day!”
AMANDA HOPKINS TIRRELL, MBA, FACHE
President and Founder, Hopkins Tirrell & Associates, LLC
Magda Barini-Garcia, MD, MPH
“Navigating Your Healthcare Journey is a compilation of the expertise, compassion, care and the lived experience of these passionate healthcare professionals. Their years in the service of others at all levels of our healthcare system delivers a skillful meshing of science, storytelling, education and empowerment.
Both comprehensive and concise, this well researched guide is the ideal companion as one journeys, as patient and advocate, through the morass that is healthcare in this country today. It provides the tools to address healthcare decisions with awareness, focus and confidence. You will refer to this guide often as a trusted resource - its format is readable, informative and actionable.”
MAGDA BARINI-GARCIA, MD, MPH
Health Policy Physician
Former Senior Medical Advisor on Minority Health & Health Disparities and Quality For the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Center for Quality
Captain, United States Public Health Service (Retired)
Saria (Carter) Saccocio, MD, MHA, FAAFP
“Navigating Your Healthcare Journey is the go-to practical guide for patients and their families traversing the often tortuous terrain known as the U.S. healthcare experience. Common healthcare terms are translated to provide an easy-to-follow understanding of complex care.”
SARIA (CARTER) SACCOCIO, MD, MHA, FAAFP
East Region Chief Medical Officer, CareMore Health
David B. Hellmann, MD, M.A.C.P.
“This highly readable, engaging book provides a useful compass to anyone trying to navigate the complexities of our healthcare system.”
DAVID B. HELLMANN, MD, M.A.C.P.
Aliki Perroti Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Medicine