Prepare to Defend Yourself: How to Navigate the Healthcare System & Escape with Your Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781623491154)

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 and disaster medicine and healthcare policy expert, pulls back the examination room curtain on the healthcare system, empowering patients and their families to become proactive and knowledgeable users of medical services. Written in a humorous, patient-friendly style and loaded with the author's cartoons and other visual aids, this essential consumer's guide to modern healthcare provides down-to-earth, accurate advice that any reader can use, whether preparing for surgery, dialing 911, or simply getting a prescription filled.

Author: Matthew Minson
ISBN-10: 1623491150
ISBN-13: 9781623491154
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2014
Pages: 221
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.25w x 0.57d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2014 pg. 93
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2014 pg. 32