Medical advocacy is an area of lay specialization in health care concerned with advocacy for patients, survivors and carers. The Medical advocate may be an individual or an organization, often, though not always, concerned with one specific group of disorders. The terms Medical advocate and Medical advocacy can refer both to individual advocates providing services that organizations also provide, and to organizations whose functions extend to individual patients. Some Medical advocates work for the institutions that are directly responsible for the patient’s care.

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