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Get inside your doctor's head : 10 commonsense rules for making better decisions about medical care / Phillip K. Peterson, M.D.
Author
Peterson, Phillip K.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Description
x, 130 pages ; 19 cm.
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R727.4 .P46 2013
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Patient education
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Patient participation
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Medicine
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Decision making
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Physician and patient
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Series
Johns Hopkins Press health book ; 33.
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A Johns Hopkins Press health book ; 33
Contents
Introduction : applying and breaking the rules
Rule 1. If you don't know what you're doing, don't do anything
Rule 2. If what you're doing seems to be working, think about continuing it
Rule 3. If what you're doing doesn't seem to be working, think about doing something else
Rule 4. Don't agree to an invasive procedure without understanding why it's needed
and without getting a second opinion
Rule 5. If you don't have symptoms, a doctor can't make you feel better
Rule 6. Never trust anyone completely, especially purveyors of conventional wisdom
Rule 7. Most things are what they seem to be, except when they're not
Rule 8. What your doctor doesn't know could kill you
Rule 9. Timing is everything, and sometimes time is the cure
Rule 10. Caring is always important medicine
Epilogue : the participatory art of medicine
Recap : the rules revisited.
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ISBN
9781421410692 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1421410699 (hbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2012050895
OCLC
825106462
RCP
C - S
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