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Thyme Care founders talk about the business of patient navigation

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Patient navigation didn’t start out as a business idea. The concept—and the adaptation of the nautical term—are attributed to the surgeon Harold Freeman, when he started to practice in Harlem after finishing his residency at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 1968. “If people meet barriers in getting through the healthcare system with cancer and...

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