When Women Get Sick

Attorney and womens health advocate Rebecca Bloom provides women fighting illness with a toolkit to navigate the complexities of the healthcare system.

Giving women the tools to navigate a healthcare system not built for them.

More than twenty-five years ago, Rebecca Bloom left her post as an employee benefits and compensation lawyer at one of the most well-known New York City law firms to pursue her passion for womens health advocacy. Drawing on her expertise in the complex rules that govern employers, insurers, and medical providers--as well as the dynamics between these stakeholders--Bloom has spent decades empowering women to confidently integrate the information and focus fully on recovery and wellness.

In When Women Get Sick Bloom offers much-needed insight to women and their supporters, diving into essential topics such as building support networks, taming the insurance beast, communicating with doctors, and staying mindful. She exposes the way the healthcare industrial complex disadvantages women, and she empowers them to find the support they need.

Using womens stories and Blooms own experience in the trenches, this book guides readers with examples, questions, checklists, useful information, and tips. Theres enough stress and fear surrounding cancer and other serious illnesses. Bloom gives women tools to make the best decisions for them in all areas of their healthcare journey.