Patient Advocacy
Personal, thoughtful support to help you prepare for appointments, organize your priorities, and communicate with greater confidence.
- Best for: preparing for an important visit
- Focus: questions, priorities, and notes
PATIENT ADVOCATE • CARE NAVIGATOR • SPEAKER
Navigate healthcare with more clarity and confidence.
Practical advocacy, personal guidance, and real-world tools to help patients and families feel prepared for every conversation, decision, and next step.
Better questions. Better decisions. Better care.
LIVED EXPERIENCE • PRACTICAL SUPPORT • HUMAN CONNECTION
YOU DON'T HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT ALONE.
Healthcare is complicated. Being prepared changes everything.
When the system feels overwhelming, clear questions and a practical plan can help you move forward. Eric Butcher brings lived experience with complex and rare disease care, patient-centered guidance, and a steady human presence to the moments that matter most.
DISCOVER HOW ERIC CAN HELP →LIVED EXPERIENCEPerspective shaped by complex care
PRACTICAL PREPARATIONQuestions, priorities, and next steps
PATIENT-CENTEREDSupport for clearer conversations
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Support built around real life.
Whether you need one-on-one guidance, a trusted voice for your organization, or practical tools you can use today, every offering starts with the same goal: helping people feel informed, heard, and prepared.
Care Navigation
A clear next-step plan for patients and families moving through complex diagnoses, referrals, specialists, and care decisions.
- Best for: a confusing or changing care path
- Focus: organizing options and next steps
Speaking
Honest, engaging talks for healthcare teams, patient communities, and organizations ready to understand care from the patient's side.
- Best for: teams and patient communities
- Formats: talks, panels, and workshops
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A VOICE GROUNDED IN LIVED EXPERIENCE
Bring the patient perspective into the room.
Eric connects personal experience with practical insight—helping audiences see how preparation, communication, and empathy can transform the healthcare journey.
Patient-centered communicationCare navigation & preparednessRare and liver disease advocacy
EXPLORE SPEAKINGTHE PREPARED PATIENT TOOLKIT
Start with your next conversation.
Simple, practical resources designed to help you ask better questions, capture what matters, and leave appointments with a clearer next step.
FREE GUIDE
10 Questions for Your First Specialist Visit
Walk into your appointment with a focused list of questions—and a better way to understand what comes next.
LET'S TAKE THE NEXT STEP
Ready to feel more prepared?
Tell Eric what you're navigating or what you'd like him to bring to your audience. You'll hear back personally.