One patient’s experiences and expectations in the healthcare system: Complicated and critical illness with rare diagnosis described by his advocate

Escuchame: A Story of Patient Resilience

This article is a narrative following a patient’s experience through the American Healthcare system. This article is written by a second-year medical student. During this time the individual repeatedly engaged in different specialties of medicine such as neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, emergency medicine, gynecology, and primary care. This narrative demonstrates how certain issues such as healthcare