Surviving Modern Medicine: How to Get the Best From Doctors, Family, and Friends - Softcover

Clarke, Peter

9780813525563: Surviving Modern Medicine: How to Get the Best From Doctors, Family, and Friends

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081352556X ISBN 13: 9780813525563

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1998

"Surviving Modern Medicine" gives consumers the practical steps they can take to navigate today's confusing medical world to improve the quality of care they receive. The authors dig through leading research for down-to-earth tips that any patient can apply to: open lines of communication with doctors; weigh the risks and benefits among treatment options; mobilize understanding and effective support from family and friends; overcome the fatigue and guilt of long-term cargiving; and control life-support situations to balance high-technology against an acceptable quality of life. Readers learn how to battle with a stubborn HMO and to select the right coverage in the first place. Patients discover how to make better use of their office visits, communicating effectively with doctors by asking the right questions and remembering crucial facts. The book features the authors' nationally-tested guide to decision making about critical care and to completing a Living Will or Healthcare Power of Attorney. Throughout, the book provides simple exercises that readers can practice. These exercises allow patients to replace frustating and perplexing encounters with the health and medical bureaucracy with successful ones.

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From the Publisher:

Surviving Modern Medicine is the first how-to guide to focus on the practical steps consumers must take to navigate today's confusing medical world and to dramatically improve the quality of care they receive. Authors Peter Clarke and Susan H. Evans dig through leading medical and psychological research for down-to-earth tips that any patient can apply to open lines of communication with doctors, weigh the risks and benefits among treatment options, mobilize understanding and effective social support from family and friends, overcome the fatigue and guilt of long-term caregiving, and control life-support situations to balance high-technology medical care against an acceptable quality of life.

About the Author:

Susan E. Evans is British palaeontologist and herpetologist. She is the author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.[1]

She received a BSc in Zoology at Bedford College in 1974, and in 1977 a PhD in vertebrate palaeontology from the University College London. In 1980 she was Assistant Professor in biology at the University College of Bahrain and went continued as a lecturer in Anatomy at Middlesex Hospital Medical School. She was also Senior Lecturer with the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at the University College, London[2] In 2003, she became a Professor of Vertebrate Morphology and Palaeontology at University College London.

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