Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now
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Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now

Gaining the Upper Hand in Your Medical Care

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eBook - ePub

Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now

Gaining the Upper Hand in Your Medical Care

About this book

The state of health care in this country is routinely discussed in the media, at the office, and around the kitchen table. Yet as consumers of medical care, Americans often blindly accept medical advice that may or may not be relevant or even appropriate. Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now is meant to turn on its head the old notion that medical care is dictated by the doctors who offer advice. Today, it's all about the patients who receive it. Bias, financial incentives, and preventable medical error are common to the point of inevitability and have proven resistant to reform. Patients increasingly and correctly feel that they are on their own in a large, bewildering, impersonal, and dangerous medical system.

Offering an insider's perspective, Dr. Kussin provides the tools readers need to make informed decisions about their care, as well as the confidence to question their doctor's advice, seek out additional information, and discern the best path for their care. With this book, readers learn how to maintain a professional approach that, rather than straining the doctor-patient relationship, makes it stronger and more cooperative.

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Table of contents

  1. The Process of Caring
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Part I: War: The Battle of Medical Epistemologies
  4. Part II: A Medical Day
  5. Chapter 1: The Office
  6. Chapter 2: The Hospital
  7. Chapter 3: Medical On-Call
  8. Chapter 4: The Emergency Room
  9. Part III: Choosing Your Doctor
  10. Chapter 5: Choosing Your Doctor: Introduction
  11. Chapter 6: College and Medical School: Setting the Stage
  12. Chapter 7: Brains
  13. Chapter 8: Communication
  14. Chapter 9: Empathy
  15. Chapter 10: Style
  16. Chapter 11: Second Opinions
  17. Part IV: Choosing Your Hospital
  18. Chapter 12: Choosing Your Hospital: Introduction
  19. Chapter 13: Staying Local
  20. Chapter 14: Abandon Ship!
  21. Chapter 15: Searching for Solutions
  22. Part V: Hospital Dangers and How to Prevent Them
  23. Chapter 16: Hospital Dangers: Introduction
  24. Chapter 17: Medication Errors
  25. Chapter 18: Hospital-Acquired Infections
  26. Chapter 19: Isolation
  27. Appendix: Best Medical Websites
  28. Notes
  29. Bibliography
  30. About the Author