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The Informed Patient

A Complete Guide to a Hospital Stay

Karen A. FriedmanSeries: Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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Pages
248
Year
2017
Language
English
Publisher
Cornell University Press

About

Even the most capable individuals are challenged when confronted with the complexity of the modern hospital experience. The Informed Patient is a guide and a workbook, divided into topical, focused sections with step-by-step instructions, insights, and tips to illustrate what patients and their families can expect during a hospital stay. Anyone who will experience a hospital stay-or friends or family who may be in charge of a patient's care-will find all the help and advice they could need in the detailed sections that cover every aspect of what they can expect.
Karen A. Friedman, MD, and Sara L. Merwin, MPH, offer hands-on advice about how patients, health care providers, and medical staff can work together to achieve good outcomes. Through anecdotes, tips, sidebars, and clinical scenario vignettes, The Informed Patient presents ways to enhance and optimize a hospital stay, from practical advice on obtaining the best care to dealing with the emotional experience of being in the hospital.

Related Subjects

  • Personal & Practical Guides
  • Reference (Adult Nonfiction)
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Reference (Health & Fitness)
  • Health & Fitness
  • Physician & Patient (incl. Narrative Medicine)
  • Medical

Extended Details

  • SeriesCulture and Politics of Health Care Work

    Reviews

    "If a friend or family member is being admitted to a hospital, here is the book to slip into the bag they will be taking with them.... This is one of, if not the most, comprehensive guide for hospital patients we've run across."
    Orthopedics This Week
    "The entire book is devoted to supporting patients.... Every public, high school, community college, and university library should consider adding this book to resource collections."
    ARBAonline

    Artists

    Karen A. FriedmanAuthor
    Sara L. MerwinAuthor