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There is no training on how to be in charge of your health, when and where to seek medical advice, or how to become doctors' partners. We learn this as we go through our or our loved one's struggles with illnesses and experiences with doctors and healthcare.
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Discover how you can take a charge of your wellbeing and become a "CEO of your health"!
How to find reliable answers to medical questions, find a "good "doctor and medical practice that fits your culture, lifestyle and the budget?
How to communicate effectively with your medical team, survive hospital stay and avoid medical errors?
How to make tough decisions about your health, illness, and become resilient while being sick?
Find your way: illness, doctors, and healthcare answers these questions and more!
Originally from Eastern Siberia, trained as family physician at Duke University and integrative medicine at Andrew Weil Center of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, Dr. Gibson passes ancient wisdom of Eastern Medicine into Western healthcare and gives lessons in patient-doctor partnership, empowering all of us to play a leading role in our well-being.
Over three decades, Dr. Gibson's holistic approach, expertise in medical science and integrative medicine, has helped thousands of patients on two continents return to health.
Find your way: illness, doctors, and healthcare is not only a practical guide on how to stay healthy and pivot chronic illness, but lead your way through challenges of modern healthcare. Order your copy today!
About the author
Maria Gibson, MD, PhD is a Board-certified family physician in Phoenix, Arizona, a Certified Physician Executive and a Clinical Professor at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Phoenix. Dr. Gibson grew up in Siberia and earned her MD and PhD degrees at the Siberian State Medical University, where the science of Western medicine merges with Eastern medicine practices. Her research in Siberia was dedicated to the study of alternative and balneological treatments of acute and chronic pelvic pain. Upon moving to the United States in 1996, Dr. Gibson completed a family medicine residency at Duke University and a fellowship in integrative medicine at Andrew Weil Center of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. As faculty at the Siberian State Medical University, Medical University of South Carolina and Emory University, she trained and mentored hundreds of medical students, family medicine physicians and physician-executives. Over three decades, her holistic approach, expertise in medical science and integrative medicine knowledge have helped thousands of patients return to health. In her book, Dr. Gibson reveals her struggles of going through her own illness as a patient, experiencing the vulnerability and uncertainty of a life-changing diagnosis. Through her personal and patients' journeys, Dr. Gibson tells stories of recovery and healing and brings practical lessons on how to take charge of your health, become your clinician's partner and use healthcare services in accordance with your personal goals, culture, and budget.
