Dr. Akriti Jain: Why Is It Important for You to Empower Patients?
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Transcript:
Dr. Akriti Jain:
Empowering my patients is very important to me because I want to make sure when a patient leaves my clinic appointment they have a basic understanding of the disease that we’re fighting together. I try to explain to them basic understanding of how a bone marrow functions, where it is present, it’s in their long bones, and then draw them a chicken scratch of what MDS is and what MPN is, what a myeloproliferative neoplasm actually entails, how it is diagnosed, print them out their bone marrow biopsy reports so that they understand where the pathologist is seeing the issues.
And this is, again, very important because if a patient understands what they’re fighting, what we’re fighting together, they’re more likely to pay attention, they’re more likely to be more compliant, they’re more likely to adhere to what you recommend, get those lab tests, come to their visits, take the medications, and call you if they have concerns or questions.