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Podcast: The Health Design Podcast
Episode: Rick Davis, patient advocate
Description: Rick Davis is a serial social entrepreneur with a background in finance and real estate and educated at Universities of Manchester (UK) and Chicago. He was diagnosed with locally advanced prostate cancer in 2007. It was readily apparent there was inadequate support for men placed on hormone therapy, and Rick started to advocate to remedy that. He also participated in prostate cancer support groups and recognized not only their value, but also that availability was geographically, physically and socially limited. Remote virtual support groups appeared to resolve many of those constraints. That started him down a path that has led to...