White Coat Wrinkle: The Patient Power Guide to Getting the Best Care from Every Doctor, Every Visit

Coauthored by Dr. James DeVore and Debra Skinner, White Coat Wrinkle: The Patient Power Guide to Getting the Best Care from Every Doctor, Every Visit offers a new and highly innovative look at the often troublesome doctor-patient relationship. Readers go behind the scenes, down hospital corridors and into exam and operating rooms to learn that not every doctor thinks or practices medicine in the same way. This groundbreaking new guide helps readers understand important differences in styles of communication and interaction that will immediately improve the quality of their medical care. Complemented by case studies, funny anecdotes and two personality tests, this candid guide helps readers choose the right doctors and make powerful, immediate, positive changes in their medical relationships.

Board certified since 1978, Dr. James DeVore is a respected family physician and recognized expert in the doctor-patient relationship. Dr. DeVore obtained his medical degree and post graduate training from the University of California at Irvine and has practiced in Santa Rosa, California since 1980. Debra Skinner is a corporate consultant with over sixteen years experience in personality type theory and experiential adult learning. She is an instructional designer, coach, trainer, and certified facilitator for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. She lives in Santa Rosa, California .