HELLO, ROSETTAFEST!
If we met in Nashville, it was great to meet you.
If we somehow missed each other among 1000+ healthcare revolutionaries, assorted benefit nerds, and whatever Dave Chase was explaining at the time, I’m sorry. I was thinking about you.
I came to RosettaFest for a simple reason: to bring the perspective of the people living inside the healthcare system into a room full of people trying to rebuild it.
My keynote, We the Patients: Living Inside Healthcare, and my book, We the Patients: Understanding, Navigating, and Surviving America’s Healthcare Nightmare, are built around the same idea:
You cannot change healthcare if you do not understand what happens when the thing you build, buy, fund, recommend, or sell finally encounters an actual human being who needs it to work.
Haven’t Read It Yet? 🥸
“A blistering exposé… fiery yet hopeful.” — Publishers Weekly
We the Patients: Understanding, Navigating, and Surviving America’s Healthcare Nightmare is the book behind the conversation you heard at RosettaFest. Available wherever books are sold. Shop local.
So, now that we’re best friends, here are a few things you can do while you’re here:
YOU READ THE BOOK. I HAVE QUESTIONS.
You work in healthcare.
You probably had a badge around your neck when we met.
The We The Patients: The RosettaFest Reader Survey is a short reader experiment to find out what happens when people who build, fund, sell, study, and maybe occasionally overcomplicate healthcare are asked to look at the system from the patient side of the glass.
Did the book teach you something you didn’t know? Did my talk change how you think about the healthcare you purchase, design, recommend, or deliver? Did any of this make you slightly more terrified of your own health insurance?
Excellent. Science.
The survey is particularly valuable because it does not merely collect testimonials. It asks whether people discovered blind spots and whether working inside healthcare actually makes them feel more or less prepared to become patients themselves.
PUT MY BOOK
TO WORK.
We the Patients was written for everyone who has ever had to survive American healthcare.
Something unexpected is now happening.
Organizations are using it to help the people who work inside healthcare better understand the people who have to live inside it. Companies can bring We the Patients into their organizations through bulk book programs, leadership and workforce education, keynotes, executive conversations, and customized engagements built around the real-world patient experience.
For employers and benefits leaders like you, the question becomes even more interesting:
You spend millions buying healthcare for people who power your business.
Do you know what happens when they actually try to use it?
Give them a new way to understand healthcare
from the other side.
Put the book in their hands. Bring me in and see what changes.
So, Whaddya Say? 🤔
Bring the RosettaFest experience home.
Bring We the Patients to your company, community, conference, or organization. Put the book in people’s hands. Bring me into the conversation. Then let’s find out what they see differently afterward.
Interested? Let’s figure out what this could look like for your people.
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