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Author Peterson, Phillip K.

Title Get inside your doctor's head : 10 commonsense rules for making better decisions about medical care / Phillip K. Peterson, M.D.

Publication Info. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  610.69 PETERSON    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - New Materials  610.696 PETERSON    Missing
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  613 P44    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  610.69 PET    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  613 PETERSON    Check Shelf
Description x, 130 pages ; 19 cm.
Series A Johns Hopkins Press health book ; 33
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.
Subject Patient education.
Patient participation.
Medicine -- Decision making.
Physician and patient.
ISBN 9781421410692 hardback alkaline paper
1421410699 hardback alkaline paper
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