Getting Your Best Health Care: Real-World Stories for Patient Empowerment
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Book Details
Author(s)Ken Farbstein
PublisherDorland Healthcare Information
ISBN / ASIN1885461453
ISBN-139781885461452
Sales Rank3,890,499
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
An illuminating guidebook for all patients - and those who serve as their advocates - Getting Your Best Health Care parses the complex system of care in America. Through practical examples and real-life strategies it steers us toward a more collegial, more efficient, more patient-focused – and undeniably safer – relationship with the system and professionals within it. This book teaches us how to partner with our doctors and nurses and how to stay safe while in their care. Patients have relied for too long on the doctors’ brilliance and goodness, believing that Doctor knows best. Doctors do know what’s the best medical care, and we know what’s best for us. It’s time for us to step up as partners in our care.
Getting Your Best Health Care is written by working patient advocate Ken Farbstein, President of Patient AdvoCare.
“This is a must-read book for patients and physicians. It contains a wealth
of information and websites for patient self-advocacy. For physicians this
book is about being maximally patient-centered. This is not just a one
time read but an excellent reference book to keep on your shelf or in your
e-book. I hope this is only the first of many editions.â€
- Lester J. Hartman, MD, FAAP,
Senior Associat e and Director for
Quality Improvement and the Medical Home,
Westwood/Mansfield Pediat rics,
Instructor at Harvard Medical School
Part One: During a Health Crisis
Chapter 1: Interacting with Your Doctor
Chapter 2: Choosing Your Doctor
Chapter 3: Choosing Surgery
Chapter 4: Choosing Your Hospital and Surgeon
Chapter 5: In the Hospital
Chapter 6: In the Mental Health World
Chapter 7: After an Error
Chapter 8: Coping with Grave Illness
Part Two: At Home
Chapter 9: Living with Chronic Illness
Chapter 10: Safe Alternative Medicine
Chapter 11: Giving Your Life for Others
Chapter 12: Working with a Patient Advocate
Chapter 13: Conclusions: Partners in the New Contract
Appendix: Favorites from Patient Safety Blog
Getting Your Best Health Care is written by working patient advocate Ken Farbstein, President of Patient AdvoCare.
“This is a must-read book for patients and physicians. It contains a wealth
of information and websites for patient self-advocacy. For physicians this
book is about being maximally patient-centered. This is not just a one
time read but an excellent reference book to keep on your shelf or in your
e-book. I hope this is only the first of many editions.â€
- Lester J. Hartman, MD, FAAP,
Senior Associat e and Director for
Quality Improvement and the Medical Home,
Westwood/Mansfield Pediat rics,
Instructor at Harvard Medical School
Part One: During a Health Crisis
Chapter 1: Interacting with Your Doctor
Chapter 2: Choosing Your Doctor
Chapter 3: Choosing Surgery
Chapter 4: Choosing Your Hospital and Surgeon
Chapter 5: In the Hospital
Chapter 6: In the Mental Health World
Chapter 7: After an Error
Chapter 8: Coping with Grave Illness
Part Two: At Home
Chapter 9: Living with Chronic Illness
Chapter 10: Safe Alternative Medicine
Chapter 11: Giving Your Life for Others
Chapter 12: Working with a Patient Advocate
Chapter 13: Conclusions: Partners in the New Contract
Appendix: Favorites from Patient Safety Blog
