How practices can adopt the patient-centered Planetree model
Thirty years ago, Angelica Thieriot found herself in the hospital battling a rare viral infection. Although the care she received was “medically and technically first-rate,” she says that the experience left her feeling detached, ill-informed, and insignificant to her own healing process.

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