Healthcare System: ItS Worse Than Being Sick

Healthcare System: It’s Worse Than Being Sick! PDF Print E-mail
In a live radio interview on Friday, December 7 with WOWO 1190 AM host Charly Butcher, healthcare expert Ruthann Russo, PhD, JD, MPH, RHIT explained that the most important thing you can do to make sure you are getting the best possible healthcare is to create your plan before you are sick.

Bethlehem, PA (Press Release) December 10, 2007— 7 Steps to Your Best Possible Healthcare author offers solution to simplifying the complex healthcare system.

“If you have been ill and in hospitals or someone you know has….you know how complex (the healthcare system is). It is worse than being sick!” Charly Butcher, morning host on WOWO, 1190 am, Ft. Wayne, Indiana

In a live radio interview on Friday, December 7 with WOWO 1190 AM host Charly Butcher, healthcare expert Ruthann Russo, PhD, JD, MPH, RHIT explained that the most important thing you can do to make sure you are getting the best possible healthcare is to create your plan before you are sick. Dr. Russo, author of the 7 Steps to Your Best Possible Healthcare, suggested that planning is the key to success in healthcare. “If you are having a small party, you probably spend more time planning the party than most folks spend on planning and researching their healthcare options.” Dr. Russo’s book, 7 Steps to Your Best Possible Healthcare, offers a system for creating and implementing a customized plan. Topics in the book range from defining a personal healthcare mission to finding and communicating with the best hospitals and doctors. Dr. Russo teaches us how to be empowered, informed and prepared healthcare consumers.

For more information regarding Dr. Russo’s new book or to purchase a copy of 7 Steps to Your Best Possible Healthcare please visit www.7StepsHealth.com.

For more information regarding Charly Butcher or WOWO 1190 AM please visit www.wowo.com.

About Dr. Ruthann Russo:
Ruthann Russo is an expert with more than 20 years of experience working in and advising healthcare organizations. She designed the HealthMap™ program for healthcare consumers. Healthmap is available for download at www.healthmapforms.com. She has instructed more than 3,000 physicians on how to improve their documentation in patient medical records. She is the author of five healthcare industry books. She is a graduate of Dickinson College, American University’s Washington College of Law, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s program in public health, and Touro University. She is a partner in the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based law firm of Russo and Russo and a Managing Director with Navigant Consulting.