Dear Kaiser:
The smell of your bathroom soap triggers memories of every hospitalized experience I've had in the past year.
One minute I'm checking out my hair, running my hands under the hot water wondering when my prescription will be refilled, and the next I'm standing half-naked in a hospital gown, head shaven with an IV in my arm.
Good times.
Liz Salmi is Communications & Patient Initiatives Director for OpenNotes at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Over the last 15 years Liz has been: a research subject; an advisor in patient stakeholder groups; a leader in “patient engagement” research initiatives; and an innovator, educator and investigator in national educational and research projects. Today her work focuses on involving patients and care partners in the co-design of research and research dissemination. It is rumored Liz was the drummer in a punk rock band.
