About Beyond Medicine

Amanda Faye founded Beyond Medicine-Patient Advocacy after her own struggles navigating the mental health care system and a case of medical malpractice arising from a lack of patient advocacy resulted in her permanent disability. Amanda openly shares about her ongoing struggles with mental illness with the hope that her openness helps to fight stigma and…

I launched Beyond Medicine-Patient Advocacy a year ago. My goal was to create an organization that could fight the injustices facing psychiatric patients. I took a year to put myself through a patient advocacy training program at UCLA Extension, and I earned a Certificate in Patient Advocacy. Receiving more formal education on direct patient advocacy…