Felicia Hsu
MD
Felicia Hsu
MD
Advocate Location
Irvine , CA 92620
Specialty
Medical Guidance
Other Services
Special Care & Aging
TeleAdvocacy Available
Offers FREE Initial Consultation
*Greater National Advocates Terms of Use Apply
How I Can Help
I am a trained physician with a Medical Degree from Harvard Medical School, with two years of Internal Medicine residency experience at UCLA, now specializing in guiding individuals and families through the complexities of healthcare. As an MD, I know how to communicate with doctors, I know what they’re looking for when they listen to a history, and I can translate all of their jargon since I know what they’re thinking of.
What services I offer:
- Appointment prep: Translating medical terms, creating and prioritizing visit questions, writing a high-yield "history" you can show the doctor so they will know the most important updates that will guide care. Decisions around attending visits are on a case by case basis.
- After Appointment Support: review the appointment with main takeaways and next steps
- Between-Appointment Support: Regular check-ins by call, text (frequency tailored to your needs).
- Care coordination & provider communication: Scheduling, referrals, portal communication, facilitating updates to the care team, coordination of transportation to and from the appointments
- Comprehensive Record Analysis: In-depth review of provider notes, labs, imaging, and medications to create a provider-ready case summary that supports decision-making
What services I offer:
- Appointment prep: Translating medical terms, creating and prioritizing visit questions, writing a high-yield "history" you can show the doctor so they will know the most important updates that will guide care. Decisions around attending visits are on a case by case basis.
- After Appointment Support: review the appointment with main takeaways and next steps
- Between-Appointment Support: Regular check-ins by call, text (frequency tailored to your needs).
- Care coordination & provider communication: Scheduling, referrals, portal communication, facilitating updates to the care team, coordination of transportation to and from the appointments
- Comprehensive Record Analysis: In-depth review of provider notes, labs, imaging, and medications to create a provider-ready case summary that supports decision-making
Important Information About Me
- I offer a FREE Initial Consultation
- I offer TeleAdvocacy Service
- I am insured
- My geographical area of practice is Irvine
Why I Became A Professional Health Care Advocate
Right after graduating from Harvard Medical School, I was about to start my Internal Medicine residency at UCLA when life threw me a curveball. Living at home with my parents, I noticed red flag symptoms in my dad. When I pushed for imaging (his doctors weren’t convinced anything was wrong), I caught a mistake in one of my dad’s radiology reports—a mistake that, once corrected, revealed he had locally advanced pancreatic cancer, which had already spread around a lot of the arteries in the area.
I became his full-time advocate. Because I knew how the healthcare system worked—the bottlenecks, the most high-yield way to get things done in a slow/complex system—I was able to get him plugged into the right team and starting chemo within just a week of his diagnosis.
The entire experience opened my eyes. I realized that complex medical care doesn’t stop at doctor visits or hospital stays. It follows families home. It changed how I practiced medicine too. There are endless phone calls, scheduling, insurance battles, decisions to make, and emotional ups and downs. Coordinating my dad’s care was tough, but it also showed me how critical constant advocacy is outside the hospital walls. All of these things I am offering (e.g. a list of questions for the doctor’s appointment, making sure the doctor is aligned on next steps) are all things I have personally done for my family.
Thankfully, my dad is alive and well today. I’m so grateful I was able to do that for him—but it made me wonder: what about families who don’t have an MD or RN in the family to help them through?
Since then, I’ve helped advocate for other relatives and friends, and I finally decided to make it official. I believe every person going through the healthcare system should have the option of a patient advocate—someone in their corner who makes sure nothing gets missed, everything is explained, and the process feels a little less overwhelming.
I became his full-time advocate. Because I knew how the healthcare system worked—the bottlenecks, the most high-yield way to get things done in a slow/complex system—I was able to get him plugged into the right team and starting chemo within just a week of his diagnosis.
The entire experience opened my eyes. I realized that complex medical care doesn’t stop at doctor visits or hospital stays. It follows families home. It changed how I practiced medicine too. There are endless phone calls, scheduling, insurance battles, decisions to make, and emotional ups and downs. Coordinating my dad’s care was tough, but it also showed me how critical constant advocacy is outside the hospital walls. All of these things I am offering (e.g. a list of questions for the doctor’s appointment, making sure the doctor is aligned on next steps) are all things I have personally done for my family.
Thankfully, my dad is alive and well today. I’m so grateful I was able to do that for him—but it made me wonder: what about families who don’t have an MD or RN in the family to help them through?
Since then, I’ve helped advocate for other relatives and friends, and I finally decided to make it official. I believe every person going through the healthcare system should have the option of a patient advocate—someone in their corner who makes sure nothing gets missed, everything is explained, and the process feels a little less overwhelming.
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