Improving Doctor Patient Communication Lizzie Cremer

Improving Doctor Patient Communication, Lizzie Cremer, TEDxTrumanStateUniversity Lizzie Cremer is a premed student with EhlerDanlos syndrome. She has seen, firsthand, the dangers of failure in doctorpatient communication. Lizzie has left appointments feeling invalidated and denied empathy. She argues that communication between doctors and patients must be improved in order to ensure that all patients receive adequate care. Lizzie is a Biochemistry major with minors in Statistics and Disability Studies. Improving DoctorPatient Communication. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community