The patient's playbook : how to save your life and the lives of those you love / Leslie D. Michelson.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2015]Description: xi, 320 pages ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780385352284 (hardback)
- 038535228X (hardback)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Too many Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical error--mistakes, complications, and misdiagnoses. And many more of us are not receiving the best care possible, even though it's readily available and we're entitled to it. The key is knowing how to access it.
The Patient's Playbook is a call to action. It will change the way you manage your health and the health of your family, and it will show you how to choose the right doctor, coordinate the best care, and get to the No-Mistake Zone in medical decision making. Leslie D. Michelson has devoted his life's work to helping people achieve superior medical outcomes at every stage of their lives. Michelson presents real-life stories that impart lessons and illuminate his easy-to-follow strategies for navigating complex situations and cases.
The Patient's Playbook is an essential guide to the most effective techniques for getting the best from a broken system: sourcing excellent physicians, selecting the right treatment protocols, researching with precision, and structuring the ideal support team. Along the way you will learn:
Why having the right primary care physician will change your life
Three things you can do right now to be better prepared when illness strikes
The ten must-ask questions at the end of a hospital stay
How to protect yourself from unnecessary and dangerous treatments
Ways to avoid the four most common mistakes in the first twenty-four hours of a medical emergency
This book will enable you to become a smarter health care consumer--and to replace anxiety with confidence.
"The Patient's Playbook is a compelling narrative of personal stories that imparts lessons and illuminates strategies for better, and even life-saving, medical decision-making. With clarity and as a call to action, the book presents the most effective approach to getting the best from a broken system: sourcing excellent doctors, choosing the right treatment protocols in the "no mistake zone," researching with precision, and structuring the ideal support team. Leslie D. Michelson has devoted his life's work to helping people access the best quality medical care--serving as an expert navigator for hundreds of clients. As the former head of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and the CEO of Private Health Management he has dedicated his life's work to helping individuals find the courage and confidence to get what they need in a challenging health system"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-310) and index.
How to be Prepared. Why having the right primary care physician will change your life ; How to find the best primary care physician for you ; Three things you can do right now to be better prepared ; Develop a support team -- Experts and Emergencies. Overtreatment can be as dangerous as undertreatment ; How to find and interview the medical experts you need ; Emergency room 101 -- What to do When Serious Illness Strikes. Patient, M.D. ; Step 1 - immersion ; Step 2 - diagnosis ; Step 3 - treatment ; Step 4 - coordination ; Competence and courage -- One final thought.