Behind the Scenes of Your Healthcare Visits
Join host Lisa Foster for a candid, eye-opening conversation with pediatric ENT surgeon and fellow mom, Dr. Emily Boss, as they pull back the curtain on what's really happening behind the scenes in our healthcare system.
Get practical, no-nonsense advice on how to navigate the system, trust your parental gut, and become the strongest advocate for yours and your child's health, all while building a better partnership with your doctor.
Whether you're navigating a complex diagnosis or just trying to get through a routine check-up, this episode will give you the tools and the grace to show up as your child's best advocate.
About Dr. Emily Boss
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Surgeon-Mom
Emily Boss, MD, MPH is a pediatric ear, nose, and throat surgeon, communication scientist, and mother of teens. Through surgery and clinical care, she addresses critical functions of children’s health–breathing, sleeping, hearing, and communicating. She has also spent nearly two decades studying how physicians and families talk and make medical decisions together.
Through her research lab, she has analyzed hundreds of audio-recorded surgical visits and parent interviews to understand how patients and families develop trust, how physicians deliver treatment recommendations, and why families of children with the same problem sometimes make very different choices for care. Her research has been federally funded and widely published.
Dr. Boss has also spent her career inside the health system leading programs in surgical quality, revenue cycle performance, and clinical operations across Johns Hopkins Medicine. She knows how the health system works, where it fails families, and what it takes to change it.
As a physician and parent, she sits on both sides of the exam table and understands how overwhelming the system can feel to families making medical decisions for their children.
She lives and works in the DMV Metropolitan Area.