The Other Part of the Fight

By Marianne Gandee, Vice President, Patient Solutions & Alliances, North America Pfizer Oncology In October of 2019, I left a career I loved at a nonprofit oncology advocacy ...

Born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, my childhood was spent living about a mile from the palatial Lakeshore Drive estate of Henry Ford II, whose father ...

A few years ago, I worked at a hospital in a rural area on the boarder in between Virginia and North Carolina. I met Anna*, a 38-year-old woman ...

“It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to, cry if I want to, you would cry too if it happened to ...

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound? This is a question I have been pondering ...

Is a Patient Advocate, PA a Subject Matter Expert, SME?  I would argue a resounding YES!  Now let me clarify that I am not talking about paid Certified ...

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” – Martin Luther King Jr. I have a dream where access to ...

I’ve always assumed myself to be fairly educated when it came to health literacy and communication. I received my bachelor’s in journalism from University of Michigan, and gained ...

As someone who has been threatening for two decades to write a book, I’m starting out 2023 by writing a weekly blog. The discipline of consistently writing will help ...