We’re launching a new video series! The series, Epicenter Experience, will focus on YOUR experiences with COVID-19 in New York. How has COVID-19 affected you emotionally, physically, and financially? What did you do to cope with quarantine and social distancing? How have you felt about the changes that have happened? What would you like to …
The Community Service Society of New York, with help from BetaNYC, released a map highlighting the medical debt crisis in New York. The results are shocking. What’s the problem? According to CSSNY’s research, New York hospitals sued patients more than 40,000 times between 2015 and 2019. This means that, on average, New York’s hospitals filed …
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Do you use Slack or Tiktok? Then We The Patients has two new channels for you to join us on! We’ve started a Slack channel and a TikTok account, and we’ll be using both regularly throughout the months to come. We’ll be adding more content on both as time goes by, and we invite you …
Kistein Monkhouse, We The Patients Storytelling advisor, has a new documentary: Humanizing Health Care! Humanizing Health Care is an in-depth exploration of the many systemic issues in healthcare that patients struggle with every day. Through stories from patients, healthcare providers, activists, and policymakers from across the country, Humanizing Health Care unpacks the history of healthcare …
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It’s Pride month! June was named LGBTQ+ Pride month after New York City’s Stonewall uprisings in 1969. 51 years later, New York has made significant progress towards equality for all New Yorkers. However, LGBTQ+ New Yorkers, especially LGBTQ+ New Yorkers of color as well as trans, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and intersex New Yorkers, still struggle …
Health Justice and Covid-19 written by We The Patients storytelling advisor Kistein Monkhouse. Once upon a time, I worried about my brother being racially profiled and harassed by police in his neighborhood. These days, my questioning of his safety has a different meaning. Recently his response has been, “I don’t have coronavirus. Everybody is safe”. …
Richard Gottfried (D-75) has been a State Assembly Member for Manhattan for years. During that time, he’s worked to make healthcare work better and cost less for New Yorkers. To Assembly Member Gottfried, the best way to get legislators’s attention is simple: Tell a story. Using the New York Health Act as his example, Assembly …
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Being alive right now is sort of unnerving. As a student at NYU, I was told to leave our dorms permanently with 5 days of notice. Then found out from the New York Times (not even our own administration!) our dorms were being converted into potential hospital overflow. We still don’t know when we’re going …
Adria Gross, CEO of Medwise Billing, talks about where patients can go when they need help advocating for themselves. Now more than ever, we need essential services like Medicaid and to rely on our local communities for support (if even from afar). Video created by our Storytelling Advisor Kistein Monkhouse of Patient Orator. Stay safe …
Dimitri Mishiev, specializes in helping veterans receive the health care they are entitled to. Watch as he explains how we can all help the veterans in our lives get the care they deserve. Video created by our storytelling advisor Kistein Monkhouse.
