Services Provided

  • Assist you and your loved ones in understanding your diagnosis and treatment plan.
  • Research treatment options.
  • Assist in organizing a medical team.
  • Obtain a second (or third) opinion.
  • Coordinate appointments and tests.
  • Review and organize all medications, evaluating possible conflicts and side effects, and develop a medication list to be shared with all providers.
  • Review and organize medical records to limit risk of medical errors.
  • Prepare you for a medical appointment or test.
  • Assist with Advance Directives and health care proxy paperwork.
  • Relay health care information to caregivers and loved ones.
  • Help you to become your own health care advocate.
  • Accompany you to appointments and therapy sessions as needed (this service is subject to temporary suspension relative to Covid-related risks and restrictions).
  • Wellness and Recovery Support
  • Anticipate future health care needs.
  • Offer individual and community education to improve health literacy.
40-80% of information that patients are told during physician office visits is forgotten immediately.
0%
of the retained information is incorrect.

What I Don't Do

North Star Patient Advocacy Claremont California
  • Diagnose or treat illnesses.
  • Prescribe medication.
  • Provide medical advice.  That advice should come only from your physicians. I will, however, help you to understand and implement that advice.
  • Provide legal advice.
  • Provide transportation to/from medical appointments.

I will inform you, guide you, and support you in your health care decisions, but I will not make choices for you.