Telling Authentic Patient Stories

Susan Woolner of Mercy Health Hauenstein Neurosciences joins the Get Social Health podcast to talk about telling authentic patient stories. It's not as simple as it sounds. Finding the core of the story and telling it in an empathetic way that is respectful to the patient is a primary goal for Susan. At any given time she has 6 patient stories in development from getting patient questions to working with the team of medical experts to vet out information. One of the remarkable stories that the team at Mercy Health produced was a four-part program on DBS, Deep Brain Stimulation,  featuring patient Michael Harder. Michael was a United States veteran who served in the Middle East and was diagnosed with Parkinson's at age 35. His patient story took over a year to produce.  With six more patient stories to share, we look forward to hearing them all.