We need to be the patient in the room
Transgender activist Emily Newberry joins Director of Community Experience, Amy Kwiatkowski to share her multi-decade journey of acceptance and understanding and how it led her to the field of patient experience and advocacy. Listen as Emily describes how her own experience navigating the health care system as a transgender woman inspired her to be persistent and to advocate for patients across the spectrum of care.
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