We’ve talked ad nauseam about engaging your target audience with great marketing and delivering a strong customer experience for the folks in that audience who become customers.

But “great marketing” and “customer experience” take on new meanings in health care.

“Letting someone cut you open either physically to repair something or emotionally to work through underlying trauma … that requires exponential amounts of trust,” Colin Jeffries, Director of Marketing & Communications at BrightView, said.

It’s even more complicated when you’re working with Medicaid patients who may be experiencing financial, familial and legal hardship.

On this episode of the Above the Fold podcast, two experts talk about what goes on at the intersection of health care and marketing. It’s a fascinating and essential conversation, and a wakeup call for anyone still sleeping on the importance of empathy in marketing.

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“He can’t talk. I have control right now. Jeff is just there sitting and he’s got to listen.”

Dominick Sorrentino, Brafton's Brand & Product Manager, is based in Portland, ME. He likes language, playing guitar, birding, taking his dog on scenic strolls, traveling, and a good conversation over a great cup of coffee. He promises he's not as pretentious as he sounds.