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Surviving Modern Medicine: How to Get the Best from Doctors, Family, and Friends
Surviving Modern Medicine How to Get the Best from Doctors Family and Friends Author:Peter Clarke, Susan H. Evans This guide shows the steps that wise patients must take to navigate the bewildering healthcare system and secure the best medical attention possible. Readers learn how to open lines of communication with doctors, weigh the risks and benefits among treatment options, mobilize understanding and effective social support from family and friends, ov... more »ercome the fatigue and guilt of long-term caregiving, and control life-support situations to balance high- technology medical care against an acceptable quality of life.« less