Patient Advocate Urges Providers to Teach Patients how to be ‘Effective Rather than Offensive Advocates’ for their Care
Tiffany Christensen describes herself as “born with the gift of cystic fibrosis,” learning and growing from her disease. But by age 21, she was sick all the time; she was on oxygen, weighed 95 pounds and had 25 percent lung capacity when she got the call for a lung transplant.