Doctor, Can I Ask You a Question? : Your Health Care Questions Answered

Arthur E. Baue

ISBN 10: 1413497268 / ISBN 13: 9781413497267

Published by Xlibris, Corp., 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Doctor, Can I Ask You a Question? : Your Health Care Questions Answered
• Publisher: Xlibris, Corp.
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1413497268
• ISBN 13: 9781413497267
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Description This book is written to help you understand the health care system and to get the best health care you can. It is written in a question and answer format, questions that friends, relatives and patients asked me over the years. Examples are, ¿How do I choose or find a good doctor and how do I know that the doctor is competent?¿ ¿What are all the different kinds of doctors or specialists?¿ Sections of the book include: ¿What are my rights and privileges as a patient? What should I expect from my doctor and for my health care?¿ Other sections are ¿ ¿Your health. How healthy I am?¿, an office visit, emergencies, women¿s and men¿s health, operations ¿ surgery, about doctors, about hospitals ¿ choosing a hospital, end-of-life decisions, nursing homes, hospice, home health care, our health care system, ethical issues on health care, where to find information about health, disease prevention and health promotion, pollution, drugs and addiction.

About the Author

Received the M.D. degree from Harvard in 1954, formerly Edison Professor of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, formerly Chairman and Donald Guthrie Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University and Chief of Surgery, Yale-New Haven Hospital, formerly Vice-President for the Medical Center, St. Louis University. Practicing surgeon for forty years in medical school hospitals, author and editor of four books and over 650 scientific papers, listed in Who's Who in America since 1990 and Who's Who in World Medicine. Member or Honorary Member in over 40 professional societies and Honorary degrees from several universities.