"... I have realized that during illness certain human experiences are intensified,
and four feeling in particular: betrayal, terror, loss, and lonliness."
~Michael Stein
Med School
They say that knowledge is power. There are a number of opportunities to learn about medicine from a patients point of view without much of the jargon. Here's just one example of how you can increase your health advocacy quotient by learning what doctors learn...only a bit simpler.