One doctor’s crusade to improve health literacy — WHYY

“People in the community loved it,” Fitzpatrick said. “They wanted more. They gave suggestions: Can you make a video about this and that?”

Unlike Jay Leno, Fitzpatrick never made fun of the people she interviewed. There were no punch lines, just someone taking the time to explain things in a simple and non-judgmental way.

Fitzpatrick remembers one woman who was hovering nearby while she was filming near a hospital. She told Fitzpatrick she’d just been discharged from the hospital after having a blood clot in her lung, but she was still feeling short . . .