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Lisa Bradshaw is a 26-year cancer survivor, a caregiver, a widow, and has been a patient and caregiver educator for more than a decade. She has hosted her own radio and television shows; given keynotes about the patient, caregiver, and provider relationship; and shared her tragic and triumphant story on a TEDx stage. No one wants to become highly skilled at navigating a medical crisis by actually navigating their own medical crises, but Lisa’s intricate understanding of patient, caregiver and provider relationships and communication can help you build a team of trusted providers and develop a succinct, informed voice in your healthcare, becoming more capable of making informed decisions and perhaps even improving outcomes. If you are not amid a medical crisis, you may be thinking this podcast isn’t for you. We invite you to stick around⏤you might change your mind. The mission and message of the Take Good Care Podcast holds preparatory intent, providing all listeners with a tool box for the future, whether you are currently navigating critical or chronic illness or you are someone who will likely face medical intervention in the future, either for yourself or for a loved one (and, unfortunately, that is most of us). Endorsed by leading physicians throughout the country, Lisa teaches you how to avoid the ‘learn-as-you-go' education in healthcare that she’s experienced throughout her own family’s medical crises. The Take Good Care podcast focuses on the challenges and victories that are unique to any given healthcare journey, focusing on education, support, inspiration, and community. Some episodes include full-length guest interviews, and others include Lisa’s brief commentary on subjects related to patient and caregiver topics shared and discussed within the app’s community groups. We know that life around us keeps moving forward during a health crisis. So, whether we're in crisis or in simpler times, this podcast is a place where we Take Good Care of ourselves and each other. The podcast is an extension of the Take Good Care community app. Visit www.lisa-bradshaw.com for more information (and a link to the web version) or download the app at the Apple Store or the Google Play Store. New episodes drop every week.
This episode topic discusses the importance of a HIPAA Release and comes by request from someone within the Take Good Care community app. It's an app I created for patients and caregivers who are navigating critical or chronic illness.
So, if you're a patient or caregiver, you would find support, education and a place where you can build community with people who get you, people who understand your plight and the challenges that you face every day as a patient or caregiver.
For the purposes of this conversation, we don't focus on HIPAA law (but I have provided a link to a resource with information about HIPAA and its lawful intent).
Instead, we focus more on a user-friendly approach, informing patients and caregivers about the use of a HIPPA Release, its importance as a communication tool in our healthcare, how to go about deciding whom we name on the Release, and how we disseminate our medical information during a health crisis.
On this episode, we discuss:
Resource: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa
The podcast is an extension of the Take Good Care community app and the Empathetic Healthcare Practices™ Course. Download the app at the Apple Store or the Google Play Store and learn more about the Course at www.lisa-bradshaw.com.
Kim and Doug Bianchi and I happen to live in the same community, and we're friends. They are the owners of a lovely, small vineyard, and literally, from the onset of Doug's mysterious illness, this community and their friends showed up at the vineyard to work without even knowing what needed to be done after Doug woke up one morning paralyzed from the waist down.
No one can prepare for something so unexpected.
Doug admits he has a hard time asking for help, as so many of us do, but perhaps one of the lessons we learn from a health crisis is how to give and receive help, how to build community.
We discuss community, the give and take necessary during a health crisis, and the lessons learned about ourselves and the people surrounding us.
On this episode, we discuss:
:03: how to give and receive help during a health crisis
2:23: asking for help during a healthcare emergency
4:25: the impact of 'dis-ease'
6:20: the connection between 'dis-ease' and our mental state
8:30: the impact of mindset during illness
12:12: the power of community during a health crisis
15:29: the shock during the onset of a health crisis
17:24: the line between caregiver and spouse/life partner
The podcast is an extension of the Take Good Care community app and the Empathetic Healthcare Practices™ Course. Download the app at the Apple Store or the Google Play Store and learn more about the Course at www.lisa-bradshaw.com.
If you're a patient or caregiver who is amid a critical or chronic illness, you may have found yourself hospitalized in a facility that lacked the option for specialty care providers, like cardiologists (heart doctors) or oncologists (cancer doctors).
If you have a speciality care provider, or more than one specialty care provider, do you know at which hospital(s) in your area they hold privileges to practice medicine?
Have you discussed these details with your primary or speciality care providers in the event you require hospitalization and have the option to choose where you are hospitalized?
Brooke Taylor has worked as a physician assistant in emergency medicine for the majority of her career. On today's episode, we discuss the importance of knowing ahead of time where your primary and/or speciality care providers hold hospital privileges and the importance of understanding when and if you have a choice between specific hospitals.
We'll help clear up any confusion by providing examples that apply to this topic. To be clear, we are not encouraging you to buck the system and drive yourself 30 minutes away from the closest hospital during a medical emergency just because your speciality provider doesn't have medical privileges there.
If you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 911.
On this episode, we'll discuss:
:08: the importance of responding to the for need emergency care
2:22: the difference between emergent care and urgent care
3:22: how continuity of care begins with primary care
6:22: chronic issues in a hospital setting
8:20: an example of emergent/urgent care decision-making
11:05: having a succinct understanding of patient need in urgent decision-making
13:48: utilizing primary and specialty care to help prevent healthcare escalations
14:20: how hopping providers can interfere with continuity of care
16:45: roles of primary and specialty care
17:39: communication between primary and speciality care providers
18:47: how hopping emergent and urgent care facilities can interfere with continuity of care
22:04: obtaining and utilizing your medical records to assist in continuity of care
23:44: the most helpful and effective steps you can take toward receiving continuity of care in most settings
The podcast is an extension of the Take Good Care community app and the Empathetic Healthcare Practices™ Course. Download the app at the Apple Store or the Google Play Store and learn more about the Course at www.lisa-bradshaw.com.
Have you ever left your doctor's office without asking a question that had weighed heavily on your mind?
Or maybe it's a question that suddenly came to mind, but you felt it might be a silly question, so you were too apprehensive and didn't ask it?
I've done this very thing. I haven't done it in a long time because I have worked hard to develop an informed voice in my healthcare, but there had been many times when I didn't have the confidence to ask certain questions, silly or not.
Kevin Kirksey is the author of Life 2.0: A Journey from Near Death to New Life. It's a divinely inspired account of Kevin’s physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation from unknowingly being near sudden death to living a life he never imagined possible. He shares the one, simple question he asked his doctor and how the results changed his course for good.
If Kevin hadn't felt comfortable or felt trust in his doctor to ask him one specific question, as he was literally leaving the doctor's office during a routine appointment...
If Kevin's doctor hadn't been willing to listen or hadn't responded to his request...
If Kevin hadn't had the confidence, or if he'd felt any insecurity or reluctance like we sometimes do in a doctor's office...
Kevin might not be here today.
And if Kevin were still alive today, there's a good chance he wouldn't be alive for long.
Part of the lesson in this story, and there are many lessons weaved within it, is that we must use our voice during our doctor appointments when we have a question that is life-changing for us, even when we don't realize it. If there's something that's nagging at us, something that's making us feel like we need to ask a question, then we must ask the question.
If you learn anything from Kevin story today, it's to ask the question. No matter what it is, how reluctance you feel, how insignificant it might seem... ask the question.
On this episode, we'll discuss:
The podcast is an extension of the Take Good Care community app and the Empathetic Healthcare Practices™ Course. Download the app at the Apple Store or the Google Play Store and learn more about the Course at www.lisa-bradshaw.com.
Have you ever utilized an effective and relevant checklist for seeking and finding your ideal primary care provider?
Well, I've made a list (more than once) and checked it twice (many times), and I'm sharing it with you.
Change is challenging for most people, especially as it relates to changes in our healthcare providers.
Whether you've had the same provider for numerous years or you're in the market for a new one (healthcare is a marketplace), you're likely to experience a change in your provider(s) at some point.
I've had the same primary care provider for more than a decade, so when she recently decided to make a change for herself and leave the provider group for which she'd work for several years, I felt like a ship without a captain (or co-captain, since navigating healthcare is a team effort).
This checklist has proven affective when choosing both my primary and specialty care providers, so keep the checklist and this episode handy for when you or someone you know needs it in the future.
On this episode, we'll discuss:
The podcast is an extension of the Take Good Care community app and the Empathetic Healthcare Practices™ Course. Download the app at the Apple Store or the Google Play Store and learn more about the Course at www.lisa-bradshaw.com.
Everyone experiences stress, and each of us can benefit from learning more about how to achieve rest and well-being.
Karen Doreen is an RN and a stress and well-being coach. She teaches us the three pillars of her Production Rest Pathway: Rest, Reconnect, Restore, and offers us tips that we can begin implementing immediately, even while listening to this episode.
Owner of The Rest RN, Karen specializes in clients who work within the healthcare profession, but her tools and tactics can be used by anyone who seeks a more Zen life.
The Take Good Care community app is built for patients and caregivers who are currently amid a critical or chronic illness. However, the Take Good Care Podcast also relates to a broader audience. We definitely still serve the patients and caregivers from the community app, but what if you're someone who isn't currently amid a health crisis?
Well, you can still learn from this episode because the tips and tactics discussed can apply to any stressful situation and how we can manage that stress. Whether it's a health crisis or something else, it is still about taking good care. And, there's no better time than now to learn these skills, and how we can apply them to our everyday lives.
On this episode, we'll discuss:
The podcast is an extension of the Take Good Care community app and the Empathetic Healthcare Practices™ Course. Download the app at the Apple Store or the Google Play Store and learn more about the Course at www.lisa-bradshaw.com.
This is the first story that I shared within the Take Good Care community app, before I even knew how to correctly share a link.
Dr. Trine Engebretsen and Ryan Labbe met online through a liver disease support organization. They both suffered liver disease as children and have defied the odds of survival at every turn.
After Trine's mother's advocacy led to multiple provider opinions with no diagnosis, it was the 13th try that introduced them to a doctor at Boston Children's Hospital who correctly diagnosed Trine with a genetic condition called Alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency. She soon received a liver transplant at 6 months old when given only 48 hours to live, but the prognosis was still poor. She was expected to live only 6 more months, even with the life-saving medical intervention of a liver transplant.
Ryan was diagnosed with biliary atresia at 6 weeks old and received a procedure that is usually a short-term bridge to a much-needed liver transplant, only his procedure lasted an astounding 27 years, until about the time he met Trine.
Their courtship and love story is one of those inspirational outcomes I've promised would be shared on the Take Good Care Podcast, along with tools and lessons you can apply to your own healthcare journey.
The couple is the only known liver transplant recipient couple to have children. Their story, the lessons in advocacy they have learned, and their commitment to each other and to living life from a positive point of view⏤no matter the obstacles⏤makes this debut patient (and caregiver) story the perfect choice.
On this episode, we'll discuss:
The podcast is an extension of the Take Good Care community app and the Empathetic Healthcare Practices™ Course. Download the app at the Apple Store or the Google Play Store and learn more about the Course at www.lisa-bradshaw.com.
Education, support, inspiration, and community. These are my intentions for the Take Good Care Podcast, and that's what we're talking about during this first-ever episode.
No one wants to become highly skilled at navigating a medical crisis by actually navigating their own medical crises. But I'm here for it. I'm here to help you avoid the 'learn-as-you-go' education in healthcare that I've experienced throughout my own family's healthcare journey.
As a 26-year cancer survivor, caregiver, and widow, I've learned firsthand that when we build a team of trusted providers, develop a succinct, informed voice in our healthcare, we can help improve outcomes and avoid the 'learn-as-you-go' education that I've experienced throughout my family's medical crises.
Expert discussions, highly actionable and easily understandable tips, inspirational stories from patients and caregivers⏤it's all here, and so are YOU, so let's get started.
On this episode, we'll discuss
The podcast is an extension of the Take Good Care community app and the Empathetic Healthcare Practices™ Course. Download the app at the Apple Store or the Google Play Store and learn more about the Course at www.lisa-bradshaw.com.
In 26 years as a patient or caregiver, I have called a nurse off my loved one's critical care service in a hospital setting only ONE TIME. It's a big decision and isn't taken lightly.
We won't always like the nurses we encounter, just like we won't always like every co-worker or other people with whom we are forced to interact.
On this episode, you'll hear advice for nurse/patient and nurse/caregiver communication, a specific example of when and how to go about calling a nurse off of service, and the importance and rewards of the nurse/patient and nurse/caregiver relationship.
On today's episode, we'll discuss
The podcast is an extension of the Take Good Care community app and the Empathetic Healthcare Practices™ Course. Download the app at the Apple Store or the Google Play Store and learn more about the Course at www.lisa-bradshaw.com.
Welcome to the Take Good Care Podcast. I’m Lisa Bradshaw. I’ve hosted radio and television since 2008, but what most qualifies me to host this podcast is being a patient and caregiver educator for more than a decade.
If you are not amid a medical crisis, you may be thinking this podcast is not for you. I invite you to stick around⏤you might change your mind.
No one wants to become highly skilled at navigating a medical crisis by actually navigating their own medical crises, but I’m here for it. I’m here for you, to help you avoid the ‘learn-as-you-go' education in healthcare that I've experienced, beginning when I was diagnosed with cancer in my 20s.
The mission and message of the Take Good Care Podcast holds preparatory intent, providing all listeners with a tool box for the future, whether you are currently navigating critical or chronic illness or you are someone who will likely face medical intervention in the future, either for yourself or for a loved one (and, unfortunately, that is most of us).
I’ve learned firsthand as a cancer survivor, a caregiver, and a widow that when we build a team of trusted providers and develop a succinct, informed voice in our healthcare, we can help impact outcomes. I know this because surviving cancer and navigating my late husband, Wesley’s, illness would later help save my mother’s life.
On the Take Good Care podcast, you’ll learn easily understandable and highly actionable tips related to topics that affect your own healthcare journey. You’ll hear from experts in their field and inspiring stories from patients and caregivers who are successfully navigating their health challenges.
Some episodes are full-length guest interviews and others include just me, chatting with you about patient and caregiver topics shared and discussed within the Take Good Care app or from questions and requests I receive from you, the listener. All of this while also receiving support from people who get you.
So, whether we're in crisis or in simpler times, this podcast is a place where we Take Good Care of ourselves and each other.
New episodes of the Take Good Care Podcast drop every week.
The podcast is an extension of the Take Good Care community app and the Empathetic Healthcare Practices™ Course. Download the app at the Apple Store or the Google Play Store and learn more about the Course at www.lisa-bradshaw.com.
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
Follow Scamanda on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
