Surviving health care : a manual for patients and their families

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Surviving health care : a manual for patients and their families

edited by Thomasine Kushner

Cambridge University Press, 2010

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book serves as a tool to help patients and families deal rationally with the perplexing and often irrational world of healthcare. It covers the topics and addresses the challenges that experts in a variety of healthcare fields believe to be the most vital to meeting the challenges of decision-making when people feel most vulnerable. With contributions from leading healthcare specialists, Surviving Health Care: A Manual for Patients and their Families examines a wide array of topics, including advance planning for healthcare, medical emergencies, genetic testing, pain management, and care of elders. It is a unique resource that aims above all to help patients reach their best healthcare decisions.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Letter to patients: on becoming the 'good' patient and finding the 'right' doctor Leonard Groopman
  • 2. Becoming an active member of your healthcare team William Norcross
  • 3. Information that will help you with advance planning for your health care Mark Wicclair
  • 4. What do you do now? Responding to medical emergencies Kenneth V. Iserson
  • 5. What you need to know about medical errors Erica Friedman and Rosamond Rhodes
  • 6. Being informed when you give consent to medical care Ben Rich
  • 7. Beware of scorecards Rosamond Rhodes and James Strain
  • 8. Transplantation 101: negotiating the system Aaron Spital and Steven Smith
  • 9. When the illness is psychiatric Leonard Groopman
  • 10. On the horizon: genetic testing Robyn Shapiro
  • 11. To be or not to be - a research subject? Eric Meslin and Peter Schwartz
  • 12. Information that will help you make health care decisions for adult family members Mark Wicclair
  • 13. Caring for individuals with Alzheimer's Robyn Shapiro
  • 14. When the patient is a child Timothy Yeh
  • 15. Care of elders Claudia Landau and Guy Micco
  • 16. Being and thinking Hina Singh, Claudia Jacova, Paul Ford, and Judy Illes
  • 17. Your guide to pain management Ben Rich
  • 18. The hardest decisions: when treatment stops working Timothy Quill and Mindy Shah
  • 19. What you need to know about disasters Griffin Trotter
  • 20. Making the internet work for you: researching your health questions Bette Anton.

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