The Hospital Survivors' Workbook - Newton Malerman - Bog

For hospital patients, the journey is often filled with fear and uncertainty. The author, with good common-sense and compassion focuses on a proactive approach to securing the best possible medical care. Indeed, in these days of surgical mistakes, HIV, and infection, this book can save your life. It includes medical history checklists, treatment option evaluation charts, and test records checklists that assist in negotiating an easier passage through the often confusing medical system. The author includes discussions of sensitive topics as legal issues, when to change doctors, blood and sex problems. The book explains in detail the tests and procedures commonly provided, treatment options, alternate therapies, patients' rights, legal issues and more. His previous book, The Prostate Health Workbook, has been hailed as "a no-nonsense empowering book that helps the reader to plan and approach his fight... with all the determination of someone who knows he can win."