Author: Trisha Torrey

Website: http://EveryPatientsAdvocate.com

Biography:

Writer, speaker, blogger, and founder of Every Patients Advocate and DiagKNOWsis, whose mission is to empower patients to advocate for themselves. Torrey also writes columns for publication, hosts a talk radio show called HealthLink on Air, teaches workshops and presents to large groups, and is the Internet medical information research expert at Allexperts.com. In 2007, she became the About.com expert in patient empowerment issues. Torrey began her quest to help others handle the debacle that has become the American health care system after being diagnosed with a very rare, life-threatening cancer in 2004. Her first book, You Bet Your Life! The 10 Mistakes Every Patient Makes, was published in 2009.

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