Get inside your doctor's head : ten commonsense rules for making better decisions about medical care /
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | A Johns Hopkins Press health book ;
33 |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : 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 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.