Dr. (Ann) Maria Hester

Patient Advocacy

Dr. Ann Hester, board certified internist and creator of PatientWhiz joins the show to discuss how to take more initiative when it comes to your health care!

Dr. Ann Hester is a board certified internal specialist with over 17 years of experience. She developed her passion for patient empowerment while in medical school, when wrote her first self-empowerment book. Despite the grueling medical school curriculum, Dr. Hester was determined to start making a difference long before she received her medical degree. She went on to write Your Family Medical Record: An Interactive Guide to Getting the Best Care, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2000, long before patient empowerment was considered vital to optimize health care. Dr. Hester also created an online health portal, which is chock-full of links to health tools, government resources, and private health resources. Her latest endeavor to bridge the gaps between patients and their physicians is the Patient Whiz, a credit card size USB flash drive bursting with invaluable tips and tools to empower people to partner in their health care like never before and dramatically slash their medical bills. Dr. Hester recently became the official guide to medical advice for SelfGrowth.com, the largest self-improvement site on the internet. You can sign up for her newsletter at PatientWhiz.biz.

Melanie Cole, M.S.

10 / 14 / 2009