Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Peterson, Phillip K.

Publication

Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

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Holdings

Details

Description

x, 130 pages; 19 cm.

Series Statement

A Johns Hopkins Press health book ; 33

Uniform Title

Johns Hopkins Press health book ; 33.

Subjects

• Patient Education as Topic
• Patient Participation
• Patient education
• Decision Making
• Medicine > Decision making
• Patient participation
• Physician and patient

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.

ISBN

• 9781421410692 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 1421410699 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781421410708 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
• 1421410702 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012050895

OCLC

• ocn825106462
• 825106462
• SCSB-8860089

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries