Wise Patients Know to Read Behind the Headlines
As Every Patient’s Advocate, I read mainstream media, medical and healthcare news all day every day. Study results, reports of medical errors, interviews — you name it, I read it!
One thing I’ve learned over time is that often the headlines, and sometimes the opening paragraphs of any given article, aren’t exactly representative of the real story.
It’s understandable. The people who write the headlines aren’t usually the people who write the stories and articles, too. The headline writer’s job is to condense information in such a way as to suck people into the rest of the story. They “sell” the article to the reader, so it makes sense for them to be sometimes inflammatory, often intriguing, and revealing of only part of the story.
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