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Connections

How can patients and doctors work together to improve health care?

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(foreground) Michael R. Privitera, (background) Mary L. Coan, and Joel Elliot with host Evan Dawson on "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Monday, July 1, 2025
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How can patients and providers work together to improve the health care system? It's a question the Patient Clinician Alliance has been exploring for about five years.

Most recently, the coalition of patients, physicians, and other health care professionals has created a survey designed to better understand the challenges patients face.

This hour, we sit down with members of the Alliance to discuss their work, what they've learned so far, and what the future of the health care system could look like.

Our guests:

*Note: To access the survey or the website the guests mentioned during the discussion, please use the hyperlinks above, rather than the web address they shared during the program.

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Evan Dawson is the host of "Connections with Evan Dawson." He joined WXXI in January 2014 after working at 13WHAM-TV, where he served as morning news anchor. He was hired as a reporter for 13WHAM-TV in 2003 before being promoted to anchor in 2007.
Megan Mack is the executive producer of "Connections with Evan Dawson" and live/televised engagement programming.
Julie Williams is an associate producer for "Connections with Evan Dawson." She started at WXXI in 2019 and has been working on Connections since 2022.