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- catalog abstract ""Surviving Modern Medicine is the first how-to guide to focus on the practical steps consumers must take to navigate today's confusing medical world to dramatically improve the quality of care they receive. Authors Peter Clarke and Susan H. Evans dig through leading medical and psychological research for down-to-earth tips that any patient can apply to open lines of communication with doctors, weigh the risks and benefits among treatment options, mobilize understanding and effective support from family and friends, overcome the fatigue and guilt of long-term caregiving, and control life-support situations to balance high-technology medical care against an acceptable quality of life."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11256626.
- catalog contributor b11256627.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""Surviving Modern Medicine is the first how-to guide to focus on the practical steps consumers must take to navigate today's confusing medical world to dramatically improve the quality of care they receive. Authors Peter Clarke and Susan H. Evans dig through leading medical and psychological research for down-to-earth tips that any patient can apply to open lines of communication with doctors, weigh the risks and benefits among treatment options, mobilize understanding and effective support from family and friends, overcome the fatigue and guilt of long-term caregiving, and control life-support situations to balance high-technology medical care against an acceptable quality of life."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. Getting Your Doctor to Pay Attention -- Ch. 2. Making the Best Medical Decisions -- Ch. 3. Seeking the Right Kind of Social Support -- Ch. 4. Appreciating Your Caregiver -- Ch. 5. Protecting Your Choices in Critical Care -- Epilogue: Lifelong Health -- Common Medical Treatments -- Glossary of Critical-Care Terminology -- Examples of Advance Directives and Wallet Card.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-293) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 308 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0813525551 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "081352556X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,".
- catalog subject "1999 K-080".
- catalog subject "362.1 21".
- catalog subject "Consumer education.".
- catalog subject "Medical care.".
- catalog subject "Patient Participation.".
- catalog subject "Physician-Patient Relations.".
- catalog subject "RA776.5 .C54 1998".
- catalog subject "W 62 C599s 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Getting Your Doctor to Pay Attention -- Ch. 2. Making the Best Medical Decisions -- Ch. 3. Seeking the Right Kind of Social Support -- Ch. 4. Appreciating Your Caregiver -- Ch. 5. Protecting Your Choices in Critical Care -- Epilogue: Lifelong Health -- Common Medical Treatments -- Glossary of Critical-Care Terminology -- Examples of Advance Directives and Wallet Card.".
- catalog title "Surviving modern medicine : how to get the best from doctors, family, and friends / Peter Clarke and Susan H. Evans.".
- catalog type "text".