Jamie Askari, a immune thrombocytopenia caregiver advocate, shares why staying open to new therapies and maintaining ongoing communication with care teams can support better treatment decisions.
Transcript
It’s always important to not maintain the status quo. We always have to be searching for new treatment options, new medications, new therapies.
And so I think using the tools that we have to connect with our physicians, whether it’s, you know, virtually or through the messaging systems, it’s really important to always be moving forward and not stay in the status quo.
And I feel like if your physician doesn’t want to make changes and doesn’t want to try new therapies and you do, or your child or spouse does, then you might even want to talk about getting a second opinion, because you want to always be moving forward and always be looking for the next thing.
It might not fit into the treatment plan, but I think it’s very important to always be looking toward what can we do better? What else is out there? What other therapies can we be doing?
