This book offers advice on making medical decisions inspite of confusing and conflicting information, provides insight into the personal beliefs influencing how choices are made while citing the marketing practices that complicate the process. Making the right medical choices is harder than ever. Whether deciding on a cholesterol drug or choosing a cancer treatment, we are overwhelmed by information from all sides: our doctors' recommendations, dissenting...

From a trip to the emergency room to open heart surgery, all patients can experience not just perplexing and impersonal care but serious communication and safety issues that can put them at risk. That's why "The Patient's Checklist" is so important. It addresses an enormous need, and yet there is no other book available that's like it. Based on firsthand knowledge, Elizabeth Bailey has created ten checklists that provide a simple system for better...

"Although American medical care is the costliest in the world, it ranks far from number one. Some sources rank American healthcare as low as 54th behind Bangladesh in distribution of care, 47th behind Bosnia in life expectancy at birth. A 2013 study from National Academy of Sciences shows us lagging near the bottom of all industrialized nations including those with 'socialized medicine.' In To die or not to die, Dr. Cook gives a brief overview of...