Get inside your doctor's head
Subtitle: 10 commonsense rules for making better decisions about medical care
By: Phillip K. Peterson, M.D.
Series: A Johns Hopkins Press health book -- 33; Johns Hopkins Press health book -- 33.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781421410692; 9781421410708
Subjects: Patient education; Medicine; Patient participation; Decision making; Physician and patient
Table of contents: title: Introduction : applying and breaking the rules; title: Rule 1. If you don't know what you're doing, don't do anything; title: Rule 2. If what you're doing seems to be working, think about continuing it; title: Rule 3. If what you're doing doesn't seem to be working, think about doing something else; title: Rule 4. Don't agree to an invasive procedure without understanding why it's needed; title: and without getting a second opinion; title: Rule 5. If you don't have symptoms, a doctor can't make you feel better; title: Rule 6. Never trust anyone completely, especially purveyors of conventional wisdom; title: Rule 7. Most things are what they seem to be, except when they're not; title: Rule 8. What your doctor doesn't know could kill you; title: Rule 9. Timing is everything, and sometimes time is the cure; title: Rule 10. Caring is always important medicine; title: Epilogue : the participatory art of medicine; title: Recap : the rules revisited.