Get Inside Your Doctor's Head : Ten Commonsense Rules for Making Better Decisions about Medical Care /

In simple direct language Dr. Peterson tells readers how to understand their doctors' recommendations and ask intelligent questions about their validity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Peterson, Phillip K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Physician and patient.
Patient participation.
Patient education.
Medicine > Decision making.
Relations medecin-patient.
Medecine > Prise de decision.
Participation des patients.
Éducation des patients.
Patient Participation
Physician-Patient Relations
Patient Education as Topic
Nonfiction.
Popular Work
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Applying and breaking the rules
  • Rule 1. If you don't know what you're doing, don't do anything
  • Rule 2. If what you're doing seems to be working, think about continuing it
  • Rule 3. If what you're doing doesn't seem to be working, think about doing something else
  • Rule 4. Don't agree to an invasive procedure without understanding why it's needed--and without getting a second opinion
  • Rule 5. If you don't have symptoms, a doctor can't make you feel better
  • Rule 6. Never trust anyone completely, especially purveyors of conventional wisdom
  • Rule 7. Most things are what they seem to be, except when they're not
  • Rule 8. What your doctor doesn't know could kill you
  • Rule 9. Timing is everything, and sometimes time is the cure
  • Rule 10. Caring is always important medicine
  • Epilogue : the participatory art of medicine
  • Recap : the rules revisited.

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