Surviving your doctors
Subtitle: why the medical system is dangerous to your health and how to get through it alive
By: Richard S. Klein
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781442201392; 9781442201408
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. EVERYDAY MEDICAL AND HEALTH CONCERNS. Taking control of your health care, or, The wisdom of 2nd and 3rd opinions; title: Insurance companies: organized crime or just bad policies; title: An apple a day: and other things to protect your health when visiting the doctor's office; title: Does your kid really need that shot? Protecting your children in the system; title: The pharmacy and prescription drugs, or, Beware of the spoonful of sugar that helps the "medicine" go down; title: Visiting the emergency room without feeling like a bit-player on a TV drama; title: II> MAJOR DISEASES AND LONG-TERM ISSUES. A real heart-to-heart about cardiac care; title: how to handle the big C from A to Z: coping with cancer treatment; title: Baby boom or bust: how to stroll through maternity, neonatal, and fertility issues; title: You give me fever: infection and communicable diseases; title: How to maintain some sanity in the mental health system; title: III. THE HOSPITAL AND MAJOR PROCEDURES. Hospital outpatient visits and how to make sure you actually get out! Hospital stays: as dangerous as a war zone?; title: Medical tests  and how to avoid becoming a lab rat!; title: Major surgeries, or, How to make sure you still have a leg to stand on afterward!; title: IV. THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE. A cure for the medical system.