🎙️ Sarah Dolezal, M.A. Just Dropped My Interview 🎙️
She asked me questions most journalists avoid. I gave her answers most survivors won’t say out loud.
The Question Mark’s 4th edition features yours truly: brain cancer survivor, patient advocate, and professional pain in healthcare’s ass.
Sarah went straight for the jugular:
• Why I speak out against the healthcare behemoth (spoiler: because someone has to)
• How I connect systemic patterns instead of chasing piecemeal fixes
• What 2000+ podcast episodes taught me about shutting up and listening
• Why caregivers remain invisible to a system that profits from their exhaustion
My favorite exchange? When she asked about AI in healthcare. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Wall Street wants you to believe AI will save us. I told her the truth: AI works like any tool. Its impact depends on who builds it, who trusts it, and who exploits it. Healthcare carries deeper mistrust because no one chooses to enter that world.
The stakes run higher here than anywhere else. The consequences reach far beyond medicine.
Sarah captured what most interviewers rarely dig into: I never planned this role. I didn’t go to Cancer University to get sick and know what to dol Getting cancer at 21 threw me into a world where no one talked the way real people live. I show up as a cultural critic who lived the fallout.
Back then when Spin Doctors and Hootie were in season, the system treated me like a data point. Today the tech changed but the incentives haven’t.
Revenue wins. Shareholders win. Patients slow that machine.
Sarah’s Question Mark series does what journalism forgot. She lets people tell their actual story without sanitizing it for corporate comfort.
Read it. Share it. Especially if your boss thinks patient advocacy means sending thoughts and prayers.
If this resonates, drop your own healthcare truth bomb below. One reply pushes this to more people dealing with the same mess.
Are you new here? My condolences and my thanks. Follow along and stay loud with the rest of us.
SOURCE ➡️ https://sarahdolezalwriter.com/4thedition2025-qa