Surviving Health Care

A Manual for Patients and Their Families

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

This book serves as a tool to help patients and families deal rationally with the perplexing and often irrational world of healthcare. It covers the topics and addresses the challenges that experts in a variety of healthcare fields believe to be the most vital to meeting the challenges of decision-making when people feel most vulnerable. With contributions from leading healthcare specialists, Surviving Health Care: A Manual for Patients and their Families examines a wide array of topics, including advance planning for healthcare, medical emergencies, genetic testing, pain management, and care of elders. It is a unique resource that aims above all to help patients reach their best healthcare decisions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-03-29
Mått:154 x 230 x 18 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521744416

Utforska kategorier

Medicinsk etik och läkaretik inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Thomasine Kushner is a bioethicist at the California Pacific Medical Center Program in Medicine and Human Values. Co-editor of the Cambridge Quarterly for Healthcare Ethics, she is author (with David Thomasma) of Birth to Death: Science and Bioethics, Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia, and Ward Ethics: A Case Book for Doctors-in-Training.

Recensioner i media

"...Overall, this volume is a very good guide for individuals with little or moderate knowledge of the health care field.... Recommended..." L. Synovitz, Southeastern Louisiana University, CHOICE

Innehållsförteckning

1. Letter to patients: on becoming the 'good' patient and finding the 'right' doctor Leonard Groopman; 2. Becoming an active member of your healthcare team William Norcross; 3. Information that will help you with advance planning for your health care Mark Wicclair; 4. What do you do now? Responding to medical emergencies Kenneth V. Iserson; 5. What you need to know about medical errors Erica Friedman and Rosamond Rhodes; 6. Being informed when you give consent to medical care Ben Rich; 7. Beware of scorecards Rosamond Rhodes and James Strain; 8. Transplantation 101: negotiating the system Aaron Spital and Steven Smith; 9. When the illness is psychiatric Leonard Groopman; 10. On the horizon: genetic testing Robyn Shapiro; 11. To be or not to be - a research subject? Eric Meslin and Peter Schwartz; 12. Information that will help you make health care decisions for adult family members Mark Wicclair; 13. Caring for individuals with Alzheimer's Robyn Shapiro; 14. When the patient is a child Timothy Yeh; 15. Care of elders Claudia Landau and Guy Micco; 16. Being and thinking Hina Singh, Claudia Jacova, Paul Ford, and Judy Illes; 17. Your guide to pain management Ben Rich; 18. The hardest decisions: when treatment stops working Timothy Quill and Mindy Shah; 19. What you need to know about disasters Griffin Trotter; 20. Making the internet work for you: researching your health questions Bette Anton.