The savvy patient the ultimate advocate for quality health care
| Main Author: | Pettus, Mark C. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Sterling, Va :
Capital Books,
c2004.
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| Series: |
A Capital cares book
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Finding a primary care provider : what to look for
- The pre-hospital emergency system: those critical first moments
- The emergency department : organized chaos
- Coping in the midst of illness
- The ICU/CCU experience : surviving the storm
- Advanced care planning : understanding advanced directives and acting as a proxy/agent
- The family meeting : where do we go from here?
- Spirituality, religion and health : is this a match made in heaven?
- Making difficult medical decisions : knowing what questions to ask
- Preparing for discharge from the hospital: it's not always the finish line
- Taking medications : to heal, not to harm ... and less expensive, please
- Contemplating nursing home placement : when home may not be the best option
- Preparing for surgery : staying a cut above
- Complementary and alternative medicine : a primer on "CAM" therapy
- Health care literacy : you don't know what you don't know
- Managing conflict : anger and opportunity
- Health care coverage : what do you got?
- Tests : getting to know all about you, what you need to know
- Medical education : patient as teacher
- Parting wisdom : the best advise I could give anyone for a long and happy life
- Epilogue.