Elizabeth Lee of Gilbert spent decades navigating what she calls a broken and siloed health care system where she repeatedly encountered misdiagnoses and dismissive doctors. It took becoming a nurse for Lee to solve her own medical case, and she even discovered two extra sets of ribs.
In her professional life, Lee has worn many hats. She worked as an administrator in higher education before she became a nurse in reproductive medicine. That led her to patient advocacy and consulting, and now even politics.
But for almost as long as she’s been alive, Lee has been a patient…