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Your Family Medical Record : An Interactive Guide to Getting the Best Care |
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Sometimes a simple doctor visit can cause more harm than good. As Maria Hester, M.D., explains in this basic guide for patients, unnecessary delays, tests, and misdiagnoses can result from poor communication between physicians and their patients--often frustrating both parties. To prevent the problem, she offers patients a way to take responsibility for their own medical history and to learn how to talk so doctors will listen. Hester defines common diseases, symptoms, medical procedures, potential complications, and terms physicians use when discussing all of them. Worksheets scattered throughout the book allow patients to record treatments and outcomes of doctor visits; medications prescribed and their effects; hospitalizations; surgeries; and specific sheets for diseases including asthma, congestive heart failure, diabetes, and hypertension. Other worksheets, such as "Social History," touch on important--but often forgotten--details such as weekly alcohol consumption or the number of years spent smoking prior to quitting. Hester keeps the text simple (sometimes overly so), to the point that it can read more like a detailed outline than a book. The focus stays on maintaining accurate records; consequently, the patient who wishes to research specific ailments should seek other sources. Despite her tendency to overly justify medical professionals' use of complex words and abbreviations, Hester's point makes sense: physicians are highly educated people who too often must ferret out critical information on new patients who provide incomplete medical histories. Her guide is a good--if somewhat weak--start to alleviating this problem. --Liane Thomas
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