EP 14 Getting the Best Care :: Margaret Fitzpatrick

Margaret has been a critical care nurse and nurse anesthetist for over 20 years. Her experience caring for patients as well as her experience coming as the last of 16 siblings, has shown her the many pitfalls that can come to vulnerable people in the healthcare system.

Too often, older patients are put on a healthcare conveyor belt, enduring tests, procedures and medications that offer little benefits. Caring for both of her parents as they aged into their 90’s showed Margaret the importance of establishing individual healthcare goals that reflect your values. That is the key to staying off of the healthcare conveyor belt. Helping people to have a more rational relationship with healthcare as they age inspired her to write her latest book,

Getting the Best Care. Margaret is a busy speaker on these issues and consults with private clients to help them to negotiate the healthcare system, often as they are helping older loved ones with medical issues. 

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You can lean more about Margaret on her website.

Her book, ‘Getting the Best Care, Rescue Your Loved One from the Healthcare Conveyor Belt’ can be found on Amazon.