How to Be Your Own Doctor

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Summary: This is a MUST HAVE on your bookshelf!
Review: I am an RN. I know only too well how expensive and time consuming trips are to the Doctor--or worse--to the ER clinic.

This book offers excellent advice for every day (and not so every day) maladies that will allow individuals to, in effect, provide "self-triage."

Often, Dr. Shrader advises his readers to check with their own physicians, but more often, he gives medical advice that makes a trip to the doctor unnecessary. He also gives pointers on how to save money on perscriptions. For quite some time, I've been searching for a book written by a person with legitimate credentials. Thankfully, this is now available to the public.

This book is also a fun read. It's full of anecdotes that will make you laugh and appreciate this Doctor's warm humor.

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Summary: Stop taking unnecessary trips to the doctor
Review: I am the mother of two young children and constantly am taking my kids to the doctor. I saw this doctor on television with Heidi what's-her-name on ABC and got his book. There's lots of good common sense doctor stuff in there. Stuff that you don't have to go take your kids and sit in a waiting room with a bunch of sick people to find out. Sometimes I think sitting in the waiting room can make you sicker than you are. Especially kids. So I'm happy to be able to flip to any topic I need: Food poisoning, cuts and bruises, etc, etc, and find out what to do right at home. And the title's right, I've already saved a bunch of money. Thanks Dr. Shrader!!

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Summary: Stop taking unnecessary trips to the doctor
Review: I am the mother of two young children and constantly am taking my kids to the doctor. I saw this doctor on television with Heidi what's-her-name on ABC and got his book. There's lots of good common sense doctor stuff in there. Stuff that you don't have to go take your kids and sit in a waiting room with a bunch of sick people to find out. Sometimes I think sitting in the waiting room can make you sicker than you are. Especially kids. So I'm happy to be able to flip to any topic I need: Food poisoning, cuts and bruises, etc, etc, and find out what to do right at home. And the title's right, I've already saved a bunch of money. Thanks Dr. Shrader!!

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Summary: Practical with common sense
Review: I found this book to be very practical, full of common sense information that is not seen too often in the medical profession these days. The anecdotes were fun to read and gave a feel for what life is like for a family doctor, one in the old style, when house calls were still common place. The high cost of medical care these days makes it a priority to be able to determine when to spend your money to go see a doctor. This book helps do that. I would recommend this book to anyone.

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Summary: A good resource for family healthcare
Review: This book is full of commonsense advice on how to be your own doctor and reduce expensive and unnecessary trips to the doctor. It has fun anecdotes about his years as a family practice physician, starting from the years when house calls were still common practice.
In addition to advice about when to be your own doctor, it also gives you warning signs about when it is necessary to seek medical care. As an RN with 9 years of emergency room experience, I have seen how the high cost of an emergency room visit can transform a simple problem into a large expense. This book will help you decide.