Anna Heaslet

Background

About Anna Heaslet

I am very passionate about patient advocacy in medicine, as well as patient rights in healthcare. At the age of 16, I was injured by a botched spinal injection, resulting in a painful, incurable and degenerative neurological/autoimmune condition. After 25 years of endless untreated pain, different doctors and hospitals, I have become somewhat of an expert. I’ve learned how to feel out doctors, and then quickly decide the best course of action, in various different situations. I’m my experience, this noticeably improved patient outcome. I had always dreamed of being a doctor myself, so when that dream was later so prematurely and unfairly taken away, I decided to continue my great interest in medicine on my own. This has consisted of much educational reading (including countless medial journals), learning a good amount of medical terminology as well as human anatomy, and a plan to take both a patient advocacy course, and medical terminology course come next year. I feel very passionate when it comes to medical and patient advocacy, and I believe I can make it easier for everyone, as well as expedite the treatment process for the patient. I have over ten years of customer service and customer service management experience, ranging from property and casualty insurance, to money handling equipment manufacturing, where I managed the customer service and technical support departments. I then managed the customer service and technical support, and also handled the company’s HR, writing/editing, and insurance needs. Years ago, I decided to go back to school to abstain classical French culinary arts training, and then ended up being hired directly out of school. I then worked for that prestigious fine dining restaurant in La Jolla Cove, California for almost 3 years. I can say, I am extremely grateful to have such diverse, well-rounded experience and skill-set.