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The Empowered Patient: How to Get the Right Diagnosis, Buy the Cheapest Drugs, Beat Your Insurance Company, and Get the Best Medical Care Every Time
The Empowered Patient: How to Get the Right Diagnosis, Buy the Cheapest Drugs, Beat Your Insurance Company, and Get the Best Medical Care Every Time
The facts are alarming: Medical errors kill more people each year than AIDS, breast cancer, or car accidents. A doctor’s relationship with pharmaceutical companies may influence his choice of drugs for you. The wrong key word on an insurance claim can deny you coverage. Through real life stories, including her own, and shrewd advice, CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen shows you how to become your own advocate and navigate the minefield of today’s health-care system. But there’s good news. Discover how to
• find a doctor who “gets” you and listens to you
• ask the right questions for the best treatment
• make the most out of a short office visit
• cut out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs
• harness the power of the Internet for medical issues
• fight back when claims are denied
Combining the personal stories of patients across America with crucial advice on receiving the best possible health care, this guide will enable you to confront an often confusing and perilous system—and come out ahead.
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Review by J. Garton for The Empowered Patient: How to Get the Right Diagnosis, Buy the Cheapest Drugs, Beat Your Insurance Company, and Get the Best Medical Care Every Time
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The Empowered Patient is a must have guide to protect your health and wealth from improper treatment. If you, your family member or friend are facing health issues, I highly recommend you purchase this book and use it to advocate for the best treatment from doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, and insurance providers.
Elizabeth Cohen, speaks from her own experience and research. She provides you detailed facts and resources that will inform and equip you to verify or even challenge, the decisions of a health care profession.
The Empowered Patient will discuss:
– Websites that will allow you check on your doctor.
– A worksheet to prompt you to ask the right questions and get facts from your doctor.
– Special questions for complicated problems.
– How to get out of medical debt.
– How to control your care at the hospital.
– How to research your condition on the Internet.
This information alone will make a difference in your treatment. However, this book provides so much more information that it really should be called: “A Handbook For Patient Advocacy.”
James Garton
Author of 25 Ways to Make Money Online