When it comes to cancer, why do we need to know survival rates?
Imagine survival as a bell curve with a normal distribution. If the "average" person survives 2-5 years, and the "below average" person survives less than 2 years, why not decide to be the "above average" person who lives 5+ years?
My plan is to be the above average person.
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.
