Download or read book Navigating the Medical Maze written by Steven L. Brown and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumers are bombarded with competing health-care suggestions. Too often, decisions are made from emotions, peer pressure, or marketing, rather than through careful investigation. Steven L. Brown guides readers through issues impacting medical choices, weaving a Christian worldview throughout his approach. Beginning with the positive and negative attributes of medical doctors, Brown examines principles of practice and the effect bias can have on a physician's recommendations. The author also gives readers tools to navigate the world of alternative medicine and work through the emotional impact of illness. A section of frequently asked questions rounds out an insider's view of some of the critical health-care issues of our time.
Download or read book 101 Ways to the Best Medical Care written by Charlotte E. Thompson and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 101 Ways To The Best Medical Care, is the medical guide that could save your life or the life of a loved one. A gold mine of practical information and resources are provided.
Download or read book The Medical Day Planner written by Tory Zellick and published by Victory Belt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tory Zellick created this portable, easy to use planner after years of caring for her mother, who was suffering from breast cancer. The organizer is designed to be a helpful tool and guide for those who have taken on the role of caregiver, or for those patients who are healthy enough to care for themselves. As we all know, illness can be an overwhelming part of life. What you have here is a fill-in-the-blank guide to help be proactive throughout the treatment process. With its universal appeal, The Medical Day Planner is the perfect solution for recording vital information for patients of all ages with any ailment. It allows you to easily and conveniently track doctor's information, medication history, treatments, procedures, tests and scans, appointments, and hospitalizations, as well as stay organized with the 52-week day planner. Each section cross-references, allowing you to be fully prepared.
Download or read book CAREGIVING SIMPLIFIED NAVIGATING THE MEDICAL INSURANCE MAZE BEST HEALTHCARE PRODUCT REFERENCE GUIDE written by LAURIN GREY and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-23 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Caregiving Simplified" reference guide contains valuable resource information, will help you understand the medical insurance maze, and provide you with the best healthcare product guide, to insure the best care possible. This information will save you time and money, and make your caregiving experience easier.
Download or read book Medical Parenting written by Jacqueline Jones and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical Parenting is the essential guide for parents to take control of their child’s health, from choosing a pediatrician to helping children transition into adulthood. As one of America's Top Doctors™, a mother of two grown children, and a physician and surgeon with over 25 years’ experience, Dr. Jones understands that there is no greater responsibility as a parent than ensuring your child's optimum health. With so much information out there, it can be hard to navigate the medical system. Medical Parenting walks parents through a myriad of scenarios involving children’s health, from choosing that first pediatrician to chronic illness and surgery to nutrition and binge drinking in teenagers, so parents feel confident in their decisions and learn self-care along the way. More than just a medical system how-to, Medical Parenting is told from a physician and mother’s perspective to include heartfelt stories from Dr. Jones’ own journey of self-discovery. Dr. Jones helps parents connect with their children on a personal level as they grow towards adulthood and find their way through the maze of the medical system today.
Download or read book Navigating the Healthcare Maze written by Jeff Knott and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The prime objective of this book is to provide tools that readers can put to use when they encounter challenges when making their best efforts to navigate their way into, through and out of the maze that has become our healthcare system. Each reader brings a set of tools (skills), experiences, knowledge, fears, and expectations to each and every healthcare event. Hopefully the experiences, suggestions, mistakes and successes, as well as resolutions reached and described on these pages will serve to educate and stimulate interest in how readers take on their next healthcare challenge."--front flap of dustjacket.
Download or read book Doctor Your Patient Will See You Now written by Steven Z. Kussin and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book How to Navigate the Medicare Maze written by Michael J Kench and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you turn 65, or when you first become eligible for Medicare benefits, you may find the processes difficult to follow, confusing and complicated. Some people find it so perplexing that they may miss out on additional benefits and cost savings.How to navigate the Medicare Maze is a new concept and a step-by-step guide to Medicare which will show you how Medicare works, by breaking down the various parts of it in an easy-to-understand format. You will learn;* What Medicare parts A, B, C, and D are, collectively referred to as the "Alphabet Soup" of Medicare* What Medicare Supplement "Medigap" policies (A-N) are and what they cover * The differences between Medicare Advantage and Medigap plans * Why you should consider prescription drug coverage when it first becomes available, if your plan does not include one * How to qualify for Medicare benefits, * When and how to apply for coverage * How to avoid any potential penalty situations* And a lot more... At the end of each chapter there is a step-by-step action plan which answers any questions which crop up during reading, giving you a complete understanding of everything connected to Medicare.The choices and decisions we face over Medicare can be overwhelming at times. How to Navigate the Medicare Maze will simplify those choices and help guide you through the process by helping you to make informed Medicare decisions, based on your budget and health care needs.
Download or read book The Healthcare Labyrinth A Guide to Navigating Health Plans and Fixing American Health Insurance written by Marc S Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Healthcare Labyrinth is not just a comprehensive guide to navigating health plans--it offers a blueprint for fixing our broken healthcare system. The American health insurance system is anything but simple to maneuver. Health plan enrollees become entangled in an intricate and opaque maze of confusion, often resulting in frustration, regret, and deep debt. In The Healthcare Labyrinth, health plan and healthcare technology veteran Marc S. Ryan seeks to demystify the U.S. healthcare system, helping Americans become wiser consumers and allowing them to navigate the maze with more confidence and certainty. Marc walks through how the current system operates, tracing the dysfunction, high costs, and lack of quality to three major issues: --a lack of affordable universal access; --little focus on wellness, prevention, and care management; and --outrageous pricing, especially compared to other developed nations. Using his decades of experience, Marc outlines a bipartisan blueprint to transform America's unique system without upending the employer-based system. He relies on leading academic, research, and mainstream media sources from across the political spectrum to examine the U.S. healthcare system and compare it to those of other developed nations.
Download or read book Navigating the Medical Maze with a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder written by Sue Ming and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide enables parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to play an active and effective role in their child's medical care from diagnosis to early adulthood. With a focus on working with health care providers to ensure the best treatment for your child's unique needs, it includes: - a description of the developmental and medical conditions faced by children with ASDs in lay terms - an explanation of common diagnostic tests - a presentation of conventional and alternative therapies and how they work - tips for managing day-to-day medical or behavioral problems - advice for parents considering enrolling their child in a research project - and all the latest medical information. This authoritative and accessible book provides parents of children with an ASD with the foundation of knowledge they need to become an active partner in the medical care of their child and the map that will allow them to navigate the complex medical world.
Download or read book Getting the Best from Your Doctor written by Alan N. Schwartz and published by Chronimed Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three doctors and a health care finance expert tell it like it is with real-life stories and techniques to inform and empower patients in today's complex health care system. Information includes choosing the doctor best suited for your personality, how to take advantage of your benefits and avoid pitfalls of medical care systems, and much more.
Download or read book Raising a Child with a Neuromuscular Disorder written by Charlotte E. Thompson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate and comprehensive guide for parents and others who care for children and teenagers with neuromuscular disorders. A large appendix offers resources state by state and country by country.
Download or read book Navigating the Maze of Research written by Debra Jackson and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Increased focus on Evidence-based Practice, integrating PICOT framework where appropriate - Additional focus on point of care considerations linking research to practice • 2 NEW chapters: - Chapter 3: Conducting and writing a literature review - Chapter 4: The research and social media relationship • New editor, Leah East • An eBook included in all print purchases
Download or read book The Health Care Consumer s Manifesto written by Deborah Dove Gordon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A health care executive at Harvard explains how to become a savvy consumer and get the value we all deserve for our health care spending. This book navigates and demystifies the confusing world of health care shopping. Readers go on a guided tour inside American health care to learn why it is so messy, and who is invested in keeping it that way. The text offers a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help create such a system. A wake-up call to an industry tenuously holding on to the status quo and ripe for true disruption, this book outlines what consumers can do themselves and demand from doctors, hospitals, health plans, and policy makers to get more for their health care spending and, in so doing, reshape the health care system into one we all deserve. Using real and compelling consumer stories intertwined with expert analysis, this book illustrates why it is so difficult to act as an engaged health care consumer in the United States and pulls back the curtain to expose the forces that hold the system in place.
Download or read book Health Your Self written by Janice M. Horowitz and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Know what’s driving your doctor’s decisions—and how to protect yourself. Through compelling real-life stories, Health Your Self reveals the forces that compromise your medical care, and arms you with the tools to navigate around them. • When a doctor refers you to a colleague in a hospital, there’s a hidden influence: he gets a bonus. • When a psychiatrist prescribes medication to school children, it might have more to do with the colossal overreach of drug companies than something your kids actually need. • When you are handed unnecessary painkillers at urgent care, the doctor could be bucking for a five-star rating on a patient satisfaction survey. Enough of those, he gets a raise. Health Your Self turns you into a smart, practical—and brave—healthy skeptic. “Backed with her twenty years of health reporting for Time, Janice M. Horowitz produced this eminently readable guide that empowers you to get the healthcare you really need. More knowledge, less waste, better care.” —Frank Lalli, the Health Care Detective™ at NPR’s Robin Hood Radio “This is a controversial book and I’m ready for the tough questions my patients are bound to ask after reading it.” —Jane Farhi, Cardiologist, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City “Finally, your own personal and portable patient advocate! Chock full of personal stories, this book is a public service. You’ll wind up the smartest person in the waiting room.” —Lillie Rosenthal, D.O., New York City “Health Your Self takes you behind the privacy curtain. When you turn the last page, you realize you were just handed everything it takes to get the best medical care possible.” —Leslie Laurence, Co-author of Outrageous Practices
Download or read book Get What s Yours for Health Care written by Philip Moeller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when healthcare and medical insurance are more important than ever comes this authoritative, unbiased new volume in the acclaimed Get What’s Yours series. Healthcare expert Philip Moeller has written a reliable, concise guide to healthcare and health insurance basics. He provides tools that patients need before, during, and after they get medical care. He describes the care we need, the care we don’t, and how to deal with doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers. Moeller explains telemedicine and healthcare apps that have become so important during the coronavirus epidemic. The book shares the stories of disruptive health innovators who have given us access to true health costs, cheaper prescription drugs, and low-cost care in and outside the US. You will learn how to avoid poor care, fight back against denied insurance claims and inflated bills, and use social media to connect with powerful advocates. Throughout, Get What’s Yours for Healthcare draws on stories of people who share their lessons on how to successfully navigate the healthcare system. This invaluable guide helps people get access to the care they need at a price they can afford. It’s the book we all need now.
Download or read book Your Best Health Care Now written by Frank Lalli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by his viral New York Times article, prize-winning investigative journalist Frank Lalli details how he mastered the ins and outs of health care—and how you, too, can get the best care for your money. Frank Lalli, the former editor of Money and George magazines, has devoted his career to getting to the bottom of a good story. When he was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a rare but potentially deadly blood cancer, he put his reporter’s instincts to work and got the wonder drug he needed at an affordable price—thousands of dollars less than he was told he would have to spend. Amazed by the complex and arbitrary nature of the health care system, he decided to share what he has learned as his own Health Care Detective so that others can find their best care and save money, too. Based on three years of research and more than 300 first-hand interviews with experts, Your Best Health Care Now is your easy-to-follow, real-world guide to making today’s health system work for you. You’ll learn all the smart moves and timely tips to get better care and save hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars—no matter what your concerns may be. Whether you’re trying to book a free check-up or negotiate with a surgeon, looking for an effective generic drug or the best price for a brand-name, or worrying about high insurance deductibles and rising premiums or a stack of surprise bills, Your Best Health Care Now has the answers you need to take charge of your wellbeing.
