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- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (vii, 197 pages))
- Summary
- In a Patient's Guide to Surgery, Dr. Edward L. Bradley III explains all you need to know to prepare yourself for the surgical experience. This book describes how you can actively participate in the decision-making process and, as a result, improve your chances for successful surgery and recovery. A Patient's Guide to Surgery also lists specific questions you should consider when evaluating a doctor, a hospital, or a prepaid health plan.
- Uniform Title
- Patient's Guide to Surgery (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Patient's Guide to Surgery (Online)
- Subject
- Surgery > Popular works
- Note
- Includes index.
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. An overview of surgery -- 2. "You need an operation" -- 3. Survival and success -- 4. Expectations -- 5. How surgeons are made -- 6. Choosing a surgeon -- 7. Second thoughts -- 8. Surgical fees -- 9. Choosing a hospital -- 10. Pain control -- 11. Your operation: before and after -- 12. Operations and observations -- 13. Quality control -- Epilogue.
- OCLC
- ssj0000218782
- Author
Bradley, Edward L.
- Title
A Patient's Guide to Surgery [electronic resource] / Edward L. Bradley III and the editors of Consumer Reports Books.
- Imprint
Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1994] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Consumer Reports Books.
Project Muse.
- Other Form:
Print version: 9780812232806