The Patient Experience: The Importance of Care, Communication, and Compassion in the Hospital Room

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Brian Boyle tells a personal story of his fight back from near death after a horrific automobile accident. He focuses on his experience as a patient who, while in a two-month long medically induced coma, was unable to move or talk to anyone around him, yet he was able to hear, see and feel pain. Brian slowly clawed his way back to the living and fo

Brian Boyle has been on a mission to make an impact in health care education since he left the hospital in 2004. He has been recognized for his contributions with several national awards, including the American Red Cross Presidential Award for Excellence, the Daily Points of Light Award, the Johns Hopkins Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service award, and the Champion of Change award from former President Obama. Brian is the National Volunteer Spokesman of the American Red Cross, a columnist with The Huffington Post, and a patient advocate for The Armstrong Institute. He resides in Annapolis, Maryland.

"Sometimes, lost in the debate about waste, fraud, and managing health care costs is the fact that healthcare professionals are highly trained and genuinely care deeply about the health and outcomes of their patients. And, together amazing things happen. Brian Boyle helps tell that story." --Harvard Medical School "Brian has seen the patient side of the medical encounter and he has triumphed in every way." --Duke University Medical Center "Brian's words soothe and guide healthcare providers to be always present in every moment of our patients' lives." --Maryland Hospital Association "There is no gift as absolutely precious as the gift of life, and no one acknowledges this more than Brian Boyle. Brian treats each day as a gift and an opportunity to help others." --Gail McGovern, President of the American Red Cross "There is no better story of a miraculous comeback than Brian Boyle's." --The Washington Post "A car wreck nearly ended his life, but Brian Boyle wasn't going to let that stop him from achieving his goals. The very process of having set those goals, maintaining the discipline to work toward incremental benchmarks, and knowing the immense rewards of attaining them gave Boyle an advantage during his recovery." --Success Magazine