The survival manual for patients and families
By: edited by Thomasine Kushner.
Contributors: Kushner, Thomasine Kimbrough.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521767965; 9780521744416
Subjects: Patient participation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Patients -- Decision making -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Patient education -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Letter to patients : on becoming the "good" patient and finding the "right" doctor / Leonard Groopman; title: Becoming an active member of your health care team /  William Norcross; title: Information that will help you with advance planning for your health care / Mark Wicclair; title: What do you do now? responding to medical emergencies / Kenneth V. Iserson; title: What you need to know about medical errors / Erica Friedman and Rosamond Rhodes; title: Being informed when you give consent to medical care / Ben Rich; title: Beware of scorecards / James Strain and Rosamond Rhodes; title: Transplantation 101 : negotiating the system / Aaron Spital and Steven Smith; title: When the illness is psychiatric / Leonard Groopman; title: On the horizon : genetic testing / Robyn Shapiro; title: To be or not to be, a research subject? / Eric Meslin and Peter Schwartz; title: Information that will help you make health care decisions for adult family members / Mark Wicclair; title: Caring for individuals with Alzheimer's : ethical issues along the way / Robyn Shapiro; title: When the patient is a child / Timothy Yeh; title: Care of elders / Claudia Landau and Guy Micco; title: Being and thinking / Hina Singh ... [et al.]; title: Your guide to pain management / Ben Rich; title: The hardest decisions : when treatment stops working / Timothy Quill and Mindy Shah; title: What you need to know about disasters / Griffin Trotter; title: Making the internet work for you : researching your health questions / Bette Anton.