Your health, your decisions : how to work with your doctor to become a knowledge-powered patient / Robert Alan McNutt, M.D.
"In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician's decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directe...
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: | xii, 150 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- A story of failed decision making
- My medical-decision-making story
- Why not just ask my doctor what to do?
- Personal barriers to becoming your own medical decision maker
- Medical information
- Understanding medical information from experiments
- Does an apple a day keep the doctor away?
- The math of medical decision making
- How to determine the value of potential gains and losses to your health
- Making decisions
- Mr. B
- Beginning to make a decision
- The flow of information for people making medical decisions
- Mr. C
- Mrs. D's not-so-dramatic decision to make
- Using the informed medical-decision-making process for tests
- What if there is no reliable information?
- Clarifications
- Where to look for valuable medical information.