[Answered]: Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick is a medical doctor and a Center

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick is a medical doctor and a Center for Disease Control, CDC-trained medical epidemiologist, and board-certified infectious diseases physician with both domestic and global experience in public health. She argues that we are facing a crisis of health literacy in the United States. In her TED Talk, she says that we are bombarded by health information, but we are confused about how our bodies work and often don’t understand what our doctors tell us. Is the problem simply an issue of information overload? What solutions does Dr. Fitzpatrick propose? As future healthcare practitioners, what solutions will you bring to your profession to combat this problem? 2.Do you think pharmaceutical companies should be allowed to advertise to consumers (via billboards, magazine and television ads, and through the internet)? What might be the educational potential of doing this? What are some of the problems with allowing direct consumer advertising?