Our Mission:

Educate.

PATIENTHOOD

Most people in the United States, and much of the rest of the world, will at some time in their lives be told by a health care professional that they have a serious illness. While there may be hundreds of specific diagnoses, the individuals on the receiving end have something very distinct and profound in common: a sense of vulnerability, relative powerlessness, and mortality—often mixed with dread and a high degree of anxiety. Of course, the circumstances differ with the specifics of the individual and the diagnosis, but each of us who have been there knows the sense of being dropped out of our ordinary reality into a life experience that we call ‘patienthood.’