Liz,
Your personal involvement and commitment to your illness and care are remarkable. Keep up this level of interest and enthusiasm to be sure that you optimize your care! ... Great to see you and I wish you all the best!
Dr. A
Update from 2019: I later wrote a letter to this hospitalist with an update about how I was doing. You can read a copy of that letter here: Dear hospitalist: Hello from a former patient.
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.
