Prepare to Defend Yourself ... How to Navigate the Healthcare System and Escape with Your Life / Matthew Minson, MD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minson, Matthew, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical personnel and patient--United States.

Medical personnel and patient.

Patient participation--United States.

Patient participation.

Medical care--United States--Popular works.

Medical care.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station, [Texas] : Texas A&M University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Do you really need to pay that outstanding balance with the hospital? Do you know the differences between a nurse practitioner, a physician's assistant, a physician, and a paramedic? Did you realize that not all hospitals can treat your stroke, heart attack, or trauma with equal speed and effectiveness? How should you negotiate and appeal a hospital charge? Can you do anything to minimize the medical mistakes that your provider might commit?In Prepare to Defend Yourself . . . How to Navigate the Healthcare System and Escape with Your Life, Matthew Minson, a physician an

Contents:

The language of medicine: sit, stay, diagnose!

Medical professionals: you can't tell the players without a program

Ambulances: you wanna go where everybody knows your number

Hospitals: what you really need to know before you gotta go

The admission: you are going in! you are going in!

About drugs: the dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy

Medical mistakes: to err is human, but you still need a lawyer

The business of medicine: the best things in life are free, but I still need your copay

The future: how foggy is my crystal ball?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62349-162-2

OCLC:

874323049