Recognizing Success in Advocacy: Stories on the Ride.

Patient advocates from the Healthe Voices 2022 conference describe how they recognize success in their advocacy. Snapshots of diverse lived experiences.

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Several listeners asked, Danny, when did you first realize health was fragile? My parents and grandparents were Holocaust survivors. I attach a photo of my father’s father, Opa Henri, with my Uncle Nat when he returned home after being traded from Bergen Belson as a prisoner of war. Another long story. My mother never spoke of it when we were young, but my maternal grandmother, Lillie Herzog, and my father, Ruben, did. So, I learned much about the fragility of life from a young age. My father died at 45 when I was 19. That most life-changing event knocked my life into a new orbit.

How do you recognize success in your advocacy work? In this episode, we listen to answers to the second question I asked of 26 people at the Healthe Voice Conference. Almost everyone answered some variation of I feel success when I affect one person’s life. I won’t repeat that response twenty times. Instead, I’ll share a few of the permutations and experiences some people made. I will link the…