Session: Finding "Dr. Right"

Speaker: Kathy Steligo

This lighthearted and informative 90-minute session will explore the ups and downs and
the most important aspects of the patient-doctor relationship. Kathy Steligo will discuss:

• How/where to find your Dr. Right
• Always check credentials (referrals help too)
• A Wish List for choosing Dr. Right
• Speaking without a translator
• Asking the right questions
• Making the most of your visits
• Weighing bedside manner vs expertise
• The importance of expectations: yours and your doctor's
• Making up and breaking up

This session is appropriate for:

• people in the process of choosing their health care team or surgeon
• people making decisions about hereditary cancer risk management or
  treatment
• patient advocates and support group facilitators who work with survivors, people
  with a BRCA mutation, and people with hereditary cancer in the family
• parents/caretakes/loved ones of people with a BRCA mutation or hereditary cancer in the family
• health care providers seeking insight on issues of importance to high-risk people in choosing
  their health care team
  

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