Surviving Your Doctors: Why the Medical System Is Dangerous to Your Health and How to Get Through It Alive

Klein, Richard S.

ISBN 10: 1442201398 / ISBN 13: 9781442201392

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2009

About this Item

1st edition. 236 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # __1442201398

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Surviving Your Doctors: Why the Medical System Is Dangerous to Your Health and How to Get Through It Alive
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442201398
• ISBN 13: 9781442201392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.5 kilograms

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Synopsis

Surviving Your Doctors, with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the basic training manual patients need to work their way through the health care maze. It serves as a map of the medical minefield, told from the perspective of a doctor yet designed to reveal the faults in the system and the things that can and do go wrong during the course of both routine and special procedures and office visits. Filled with real stories of medical mishaps, anecdotes, and checklists, this book will walk readers through major areas of the medical world - from the doctor's office to the pharmacy, from the laboratory to the ER - giving them a clearer picture of how things really work, what health care workers really think, and how to take back control of their health and the care they receive.

About the Author

Richard S. Klein, M.D., is a practicing physician specializing in internal medicine and infectious diseases. An associate professor of medicine, Dr. Klein also teaches at New York Medical College. He is the author of From Anecdote to Antidote.