Slippery Slope of Healthcare - Why Bad Things Happen to Healthy Patients and How to Avoid Them

A slippery slope describes how events progress from an initially innocent step to a cascade of subsequent misfortunes that are increasingly inevitable, difficult to stop, and more harmful than the last. In the attempt to improve what is already just fine, patients can unknowingly find themselves on this slope. This book shows them how to avoid it.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Slope

Chapter 1: Your Money or Your Life: Profit, Greed, and the Healthcare Colossus

Chapter 2: Science in Healthcare: The Beast Wears White

Chapter 3: Doctors-Love Them, Hate Them: You Can't Live Without Them (or Can You?)

Chapter 4: YOU!

Chapter 5: Screening: Don't Say No; Just Say Whoa!

Chapter 6: TV vs. MD

Chapter 7: Shared Decision Making

Notes

Index

About the Author

About the author

Steven Z. Kussin, M.D., is the founder of the Shared Decision Center of Central New York. He has published scholarly articles in several journals, has been in practice for more than thirty years, and has taught at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has an international following on his blog MedicalAdvocate.com.

Summary

Every hour, thousands slip from a comfortable and healthy status to an arm-flailing, knee-buckling, body-spiraling, face-to-the-floor catastrophe.  The book addresses this quick but preventable spiraling of good health into medical disaster.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Z. Kussin
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781538121627
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-2162-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; USA, Familie und Gesundheit, HEALTH & FITNESS / General, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, HEALTH & FITNESS / Safety, Consumer Health, HEALTH & FITNESS / Longevity, Popular medicine & health, United States of America, USA, Popular medicine and health, Health systems & services, Health systems and services