YOU: The Smart Patient
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YOU: The Smart Patient

An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best Treatment

  1. 432 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

YOU: The Smart Patient

An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best Treatment

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About This Book

America's doctors, Mehmet Oz and Mike Roizen, show you how to become your own medical detective and get the best health care possible. Everyone needs to become a smart patient. In fact, in the worst cases, your life may even depend on it. Number one bestselling authors and doctors Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz have written this indispensable handbook to help everyone to get the best health care possible—by making everyone into their own medical detective. Witty, playful, at times offbeat, but always authoritative, You: The Smart Patient shows you how to become your own medical sleuth, tracing your medical family tree and wending your way through the pitfalls of any health care situation. Written in conjunction with the health care community's leading oversight group, The Joint Commission, the book shows readers in clear, easy steps how to take control of their own health care and deal with all matters that may come up when facing a medical case: from choosing the right doctor, hospital, and insurance company to navigating prescription drugs, specialists, treatment options, alternative medicine, pain management, or any problem that might arise. Accessible, humorous, and filled with information that you need, You: The Smart Patient is a book for every patient and all those dealing with a loved one's medical issues.

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Publisher
Scribner
Year
2007
ISBN
9781416556817
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
General Health

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Author’s Note
  4. Introduction: Why You Need to Be a Smart Patient
  5. 1. Getting to Know You
  6. 2. Finding Dr. Right
  7. 3. Let’s Play Operation!
  8. 4. Prescription Drugs
  9. 5. How to Case a Hospital
  10. 6. Have a Happily Humdrum Hospital Stay
  11. 7. Why You Should Always Get a Second Opinion
  12. 8. Just What Gives You the Right?
  13. 9. Considering the Alternatives
  14. 10. Take Control of Your Health Insurance
  15. Appendix 1 Glossary: Medical Jargon Explained
  16. Appendix 2 Sample Forms
  17. Appendix 3 Resources
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. About Michael F. Roizen, M.D and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D
  20. Index
  21. Copyright