Dr. Megan Haymart: Why Is It Important for You to Empower Patients?
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Why is it important to empower patients? Expert Dr. Megan Haymart from the University of Michigan discusses the role of shared decision-making, how educating patients changes their approach to treatment options, and the benefits of taking more control in their care decisions.
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Transcript:
Dr. Megan Haymart:
So for thyroid cancer, I think it’s important that most patients recognize that there’s a role for shared decision-making. So many times there’s preference-sensitive decisions, meaning there’s no right or wrong answer. And so a patient can think about the risks and benefits and what their priorities are and be involved in the decision-making process. And so I think it’s important to empower patients with knowing, one, you have a choice, so it’s not just me telling you what you need to do, I’m trying to like lay out all of the options, risks, benefits of all the different paths.
And then you have a choice in regards to your management, a choice in regards to your surveillance, and then within that, you should also feel that you have freedom to ask the questions that you want either during the clinic visit or by a patient portal afterwards, by, you know, or do you use reliable websites to find the information that you need. And so I think letting patients know that it’s a shared decision-making process, that they’re involved really empowers them to make a choice that they’re satisfied with and that they don’t have regret with down the road.
