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

by Peterson, Phillip K.

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Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Patient education.

Patient participation.

Medicine -- Decision making.

Physician and patient.

Electronic Resource

http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=D35B6868-8B33-4F34-A9A8-9248EFA91A71 This title is available online; click here to access

9781421410708 (electronic bk.)

1421410702 (electronic bk.)

Johns Hopkins Press health book ; 33.

1 online resource (x, 130 p.)

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.

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