A Guide to Getting the Best Health Care for Your Child

Roy Benaroch M.D.

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9780275993467
• eBook ISBN:
  9781573566971
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: General Health

Roy Benaroch, MD, explains how to find your ideal pediatrician, how to get the most out of every visit, how to schedule to your advantage, and other office tricks. Perhaps more important, he explains how to assure your pediatrician has kept up to date, and how to understand what lab reports and tests mean and whether they are necessary. The best ways to choose and use all aspects of pediatric care are covered: traditional medicine, alternative medicine, hospitals, emergency rooms, telephone calls, insurance, sources of medical information, and more.

Every profession has its secrets that would make all of our lives better if we knew that inside' information. In this book, Roy Benaroch. MD reveals the secrets' of pediatrics that could help every parent and child. Benaroch offers practical information about choosing and using a pediatrician's office, from how to avoid waiting for an appointment to how to know a medical practice that is of poor quality. He also explains how to find your ideal pediatrician, how to get the most out of every doctor visit, and how to schedule to your advantage, as well as other office tricks. This is a practical and useful guide that tells parents exactly what they need to know. The best ways to choose and use all aspects of pediatric care are covered: traditional medicine, alternative medicine, hospitals, emergency rooms, telephone calls, insurance, sources of medical information and more.

Benaroch explains how to assure your pediatrician has kept his or her knowledge up to date in the fast-changing field of medicine, how to understand what lab reports and tests mean and whether they are necessary, and how to know when medications or the use of alternative medicine may be fine - or dangerous - for your child. This pediatrician, himself a father of three, also tells us the best way to choose insurance policies for children's health care, and get the most we can out of the insurance policy chosen.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Series Foreword by Julie Silver
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Find Your Dream Pediatrician
• 2. The Rest of Your Child’s Health Care Team
• 3. What Every Pediatrician Should Know
• 4. What Every Parent Should Know
• 5. Get the Most Out of Every Doctor Visit
• 6. Telephone Etiquette: When and How to Call the Doctor after Hours
• 7. An Inside Look at Emergency Rooms and Hospitals
• 8. Happy Patients, Happy Doctor
• 9. Scheduling to Your Advantage and Other Office Tricks
• 10. Medicines: How to Choose Them, How to Use Them
• 11. Alternatives to Medicine
• 12. How to Get Reliable Health Information from the Media
• 13. Revealed: The Magic of Labs and Tests
• 14. Choosing Insurance and Paying Bills: How to Spend Less and Get More
• 15. The Medical Malpractice Crisis and Your Children
• 16. Everyone Makes Mistakes
• Appendix: Fun with Medical Statistics
• Index