![Your Health, Your Choice: Become Empowered to Participate in Your Own Health Care [2nd Edition]](/jacket/500x500/9781683943655.jpg)
Publisher's Synopsis
No one goes to the doctor for fun. "Your Health, Your Choice" offers the tools to empower you to effectively participate in your own health care.
As medical care has become more specialized, it is important to be a confident and informed participant in your own health care. The premise of this book is that actively collaborating with your doctor in making health care decisions, improves your health care outcomes and quality of life, and lowers the cost of health care.
This book covers topics such as the benefits of participating in making health care decisions and common pitfalls in making these decisions, how to prepare when you go to the doctor, how to avoid unnecessary care, how aging can influence your health care decisions, reliable sources of health information, how to choose your doctor and where to get your health care. It also includes information on preparing advance directives and more. The concepts presented are based on medical evidence and illustrated by cases anecdotes.
