Health Care & You: A Guide to Navigating the Health Care System and Being Your own Best Advocate (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781732336308)

The essential guide to help you manage your health and the health care you receive, and to advocate for the best care available for you and your loved ones.

• Has your experience in today's ever-changing health care system left you feeling overwhelmed, confused, or frustrated?
• Do you lie awake at night worrying about how to get the care you or your loved ones need and deserve without jeopardizing your family's financial security?
• Do you want to learn how to make the best possible health care decisions, to achieve the best possible outcomes?

Health Care & You is designed to help you answer these questions and more.

Whether you have an acute or chronic condition, are a caregiver for someone who does, or just want to know how to make informed health care decisions for yourself and your family, this book can offer you guidance.

Diane Mullins, a registered nurse with an MBA in health care management, will help direct your course in today's tumultuous health care industry. In an easy-to-read, conversational format, she explains how certain tools, resources, and techniques can help you find your way through this confusing, challenging, and often intimidating system. She enhances her book with stories - some of them poignant - from her own life, conveying her passion for informed decision-making, self-management, and health care advocacy. Diane will point you in the right direction - holding your hand securely as you feel your way across the health care landscape.