When I heard that February is Wise Health Care Consumer Month, I of course initially wondered, “What does that mean?” Then, I asked the more targeted question: What does it mean to be a wise health care consumer?

We of course have to break this down a bit. Not only do we need to ask the question above—what does being a wise health care consumer mean, but we have to unpack what being a consumer of health care might mean! After all, my thought process is: when we “consume” something, it is used up—like paper or donuts or time, in that things are t