"The goal is to help patients who are unexpectedly hospitalized on Election Day vote from their hospital bed"

Dr. Kelly Wong is an Emergency Medicine doctor in her 4th year of residency at Brown University and she is the Founder of Patient Voting. Her incredible, nonpartisan project is helping us all better understand how to help hospitalized patients cast their vote, which is more important than ever as Covid surges across the country. Click here to find information on patient voting for your state!

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Key Learnings

1. What is Patient Voting?

2. Where Dr. Wong first learned of the concept of patient voting from the hospital

3. How Covid19 has driven increased interest in Patient Voting

4. The ways it is not too late to engage prior to the 2020 elections

5. Common questions about patient voting from healthcare providers and patients

6.  Where has there been resistance to Patient Voting?

7. How the new generations in medicine are driving this work

8. The future of Patient Voting

Links

Twitter @kellywongmd, @patientvoting

Patient Voting website

State guidelines for patient voting

Transcript
Mark Shapiro (00:00):
Welcome back to Explore The Space Podcast. I'm your host Mark Shapiro. Let's start off with a quick, thank you to Laurie Baedke and Creighton University for sponsoring this episode. Creighton University believes in equipping physicians for success in the exam room, the operating room and the boardroom. If you want to increase your business acumen, deepen your leadership knowledge and earn your seat at the table. Creighton's health care executive education is for you. Specifically tailored to busy physicians our hybrid programs blend the richness of on-campus residencies with the flexibility of online learning. Earn a Creighton University executive MBA degree in 18 months or complete the non-degree executive fellowship in six months, visit www.creighton.edu/CHEE to learn more. My guest in this episode of Explore The Space Podcast is Dr. Kelly Wong. Dr. Wong is an emergency medicine physician she's in her fourth year of her residency at Brown University, and she is the founder of Patient Voting.
Mark Shapiro (00:59):
This is part of our run-up to the 2020 general election. And this project that Dr. Wong has created is really remarkable. It is designed to facilitate people who are hospitalized on election day being able to vote. Every state has guidelines for this. Every state has rules for this and a process by which it can happen. This is something I never knew about. I've been a practicing physician for awhile. I have never heard of this. And I'm delighted that Dr. Wong has, first of all, created this program, which you can find at www.patientvoting.com. We've got all the links in the show notes, and that she's mobilized this incredible team of pre-meds and medical students and residents and people who are doing all sorts of other education and training to be part of this project. It is really exciting. It's really remarkable that I'm delighted that she came on.
Mark Shapiro (01:54):
It's more important than ever as we watch. COVID 19 surge across the United States in the run up to election ...