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Hosted by Heather Johnston · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 41 episodes
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I was a patient then a doctor then a patient again. I write and podcast about healthcare from both sides of the bed.
Heather Johnston hosts Dr. Patient, a health show with 41 episodes published.
AI can translate an MRI report into plain English, summarize your test results, and answer a medication question with total confidence. The problem is that confidence is false, and in healthcare, the cost of a bad answer
You sign the clipboard forms, tap the signature pad, and hope for the best but what if you actually understood the laws sitting underneath that moment? I’m Heather Johnston, MD, and I went down the rabbit hole on patient
Date: 6/30/26 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 34 Comfort Care: Palliative and Hospice Episode summary: Palliative and hospice care can be confusing, and are often synonymous with the idea of giving
Date: 6/18/26 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 33 Second Opinions in Healthcare Episode summary: In Episode 33 of Dr.Patient , host and physician Dr. Heather Johnston is joined by two guests — Mia a
Date: 5/19/26 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 32 Last Call: Alcohol, Breast Cancer and the Advice Gap Episode summary: In this episode of the Dr. Paitnet Podcast, I’m going to be exploring the grow
Date: 4/27/26 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 31 How to Find a Doctor Episode summary: This is a follow-up episode to 30 Preventing Illness in the First Place, where we discuss the importance of ha
Date: 4/15/26 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 30 Prevent Illness in the First Place Episode summary: Preventive healthcare involves trying to keep illness from occurring, and trying to catch diseas
Date: 3/18/26 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 29 Hospital Discharge Survival Guide Episode summary: Getting discharged from the hospital can be easy or confusing, depending on many factors: the com
Date: 2/24/26 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 28 How to Do the ER (Better Than I Did) Episode summary: Getting through the ER feels like an uphill battle, and there are frictions on both sides of t
Date: 02/10/26 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 27 Healthcare Paperwork That's Worth Your Time Summary In this episode of the Dr. Patient Podcast, Dr. Heather Johnston discusses the importance of un
This season I'll be diving into more topics related to patient advocacy: healthcare paperwork, laws that protect patients, how to manage a hospital discharge and more. Of course, there will be amusing personal healthcare
Date: 7/30/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 26 Advocate Toolkit, Hospital Edition Episode summary: It's so incredibly complicated to be a patient today, as I recently observed when I hung out at
Date: 7/22/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 25 The Disadvantage of Medicare Advantage, Part 2 Episode summary: Part 2 discussing why Medicare Advantage plans are an actual DISadvantage for you an
Date: 6/16/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 24 The Disadvantage of Medicare Advantage, Part 1 Episode summary: Wow, I knew Medicare was complicated but didn't realize just how complicated. I've s
Date: 6/18/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 23 In Doctors We Trust Episode summary: What is trust as it relates to the doctor-patient relationship? How is it fostered when the very healthcare sys
Date: 6/11/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 22 Doctors in Distress Episode summary: The majority of doctors today are dissatisfied with the healthcare system. That's not to say that they don't wa
Date: 6/4/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 21 How We Learn to Be a Patient, Part 2 Episode summary: Continuing from the end of last season, Ep 12, where I talked with my own daughter about her ex
Date: 5/28/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 20 Short Stories on Being a Patient Episode summary: I have this never-ending quest to help doctors and patients understand each other better. This col
Date: 5/21/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 19 US Drug Costs Are Insane, Part 2 Episode summary: Part 2 follows the last episode, where I reviewed how we got to where we are with insane drug cost
Date: 5/07/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 18 US Drug Costs Are Insane, Part 1 Episode summary: Wow, drug costs in the US have skyrocket in recent years. The popularity of Ozempic and other weig
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Dr. Patient is hosted by Heather Johnston. The show is categorised under health (fitness) and has published 41 episodes.
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