Your Guide to The Medical Maze
Anne TergesenPublished on October 24, 2005 | Copyright ©2005 The McGraw–Hill Companies Inc.
About a year ago, Ann Principe saw worrisome symptoms in her 75-year-old mother. “Her short-term memory was gone. She was forgetting her own granddaughter’s name,” the 47-year-old Kensington, (Md.) woman recalls. Principe sought help. Instead of calling one of her mother’s half-dozen doctors, she phoned the family’s health advocate — a new breed of adviser who guide patients through the medical maze.