Medical Mistakes - Stopping Them Is Up To Us

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	• YOU: The Smart Patient: An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best Treatment Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz Free Press, 2006 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 38 reviews view larger image
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Medical Mistakes - Stopping Them Is Up To Us

Medical mistakes are a disaster. And we're not just talking about sensational boo boos like amputating the wrong leg or pumping an allergic patient full of penicillin. It's all the little errors that accumulate in a person's medical life that these two popular health authors are out to correct. It's up to each individual to take charge of the quality and scope of their own health and healthcare. They need to become "The Smart Patient."

Poor communication between patient and doctor, incomplete or inaccurate health histories, small mistakes that get propagated through our health records, and incomplete understanding of the surgical or pharmaceutical options available to each of us, these are error and omissions that can, and occasionally do kill. As a fellow physician, I have seen all too often, how a misspoken or misspelled word has been allowed to misguide doctors and misdirect treatment.

In my opinion, You The Smart Patient is a terrific roadmap for the average, healthy patient wanting to scour their health record clean of misleading errors, to flesh it out with useful personal information and to prevent new inaccuracies from contaminating it in the future.

The writing style, as in all the "YOU" books, mixes health information with a lot of chatty humor and busy cartoons. making for a stimulus-rich book reading experience. For the reader who can take it in as fast as they can deliver it, this can be a bit distracting. But the information is all there. This is a comprehensive treatment of the subject, outlining what you must do to interact safely with our imperfect healthcare system.

We all know it pays to be a savvy consumer and that ignorance is costly. But nowhere is the cost of consumer ignorance higher than in medicine. Empowering the patient is a dominant message in many of the most popular health books. You The Smart Patient is a one of your best roadmaps to that empowerment.
- John Corso, MD author of: Stupid Reasons People Die, An Ingenious Plot for Defusing Deadly Diseases

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YOU, The reviewer

I love the books by these two savvy doctors. This one is no exception. There is a lot of timely, critical information in this book to save you problems and possibly serious health issues when dealing with the medical field. No one is going to look out for you any better than YOU can do yourself. This is the point that these two men drive home while giving you the tools to do the best job taking care of yourself.

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Everyone needs to have this information

I have had some serious medical problems in the last six months and could have avoided many heartaches had I read this book and made wise use of the information contained therein. In this age of HMO's, overpaid hospital executives, everyone needs to take full responsibility for his/her own healthcare and this book is a key to doing just that.Well worth every penny!
In addition, it is written in a manner easily understandable to the lay person with little/no knowledge of medicine.

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You the smart patient

This is an essential book for every one to read. We are all patients in the hosspital and need to know the correct questions to ask if we are the patient or being an advocate for a patient. I spent 23 days in the hospital from an appendectimy and toooo many complications. My daughter became my advocate. You need to have one today. I almost died from complications that should never have happened. I was told that I could only bring legal action against the two Dr's if I had perment damage.

Excellent Book!

The book is very educational, humourous, and will definately be helpful navigating our frustrating web we call our health care system.

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