Ever experienced the frustration of feeling unheard, hastily ushered away, and checked off during your appointments? Or perhaps you've caught yourself making life-altering decisions hastily during your visits with your primary care provider? Join us in this episode as we unravel the systemic reasons behind these challenges and receive actionable tools to empower yourself, becoming an advocate for your health.Key Highlights: We get a peek into a typical clinician’s workday and the structural issues within it. Three ways the healthcare system is fragmented: medical culture, loss to follow-up, and technology—and how they impact patients. The issues with finding primary care for cancer survivors and why post-cancer treatment is arguably the hardest part of the journey. What can you, as a patient, do to improve your visits?About our guest:Dr. Ilana Yurkiewicz is a physician at Stanford University and a leading figure in cancer survivorship and oncology-hematology transitions. With an M.D. from Harvard and a B.S. from Yale, she co-directs Stanford's Primary Care for Cancer Survivorship program, offering innovative primary care for cancer survivors and those at elevated genetic risk.Her medical journalism, featured in outlets like Scientific American and STAT News, includes an acclaimed investigative piece on fragmented medical records. Her latest book, "Fragmented: A Doctor’s Quest to Piece Together American Health Care" delves deeper into medical challenges and was released in July 2023.Check out “Fragmented” here: https://ilanayurkiewicz.com/bookKey Moments:At At At “We need time to make decisions, which is separate from time to manage symptoms and side effects and deal with other things, other concerns, and preventative health… That is what I try to do within my own practice. But we are limited by so many external barriers, many of which we have talked about in this podcast, and a main one here is the time again. We are limited by 10 to 15 minute appointments… How can you make these life altering decisions within 10 to 15 minutes, much less address everything else?”At Visit the Manta Cares website Disclaimer: This podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice, and no doctor/patient relationship is formed. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast is at the user's own risk. The content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard, or delay in obtaining, medical advice for any medical condition they may have, and should seek the assistance of their health care professionals for any such conditions.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/manta-cares/support