Your health, your decisions : how to work with your doctor to become a knowledge-powered patient / Robert Alan McNutt.
By: McNutt, Robert Alan [author.].
Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]Description: pages cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781469629179 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Medical care -- Decision making | Physician and patientGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | R723.5 .M36 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000006975 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A story of failed decision making -- My medical-decision-making story -- Why not just ask my doctor what to do? -- Personal barriers to becoming your own medical decision maker -- Medical information -- Understanding medical information from experiments -- Does an apple a day keep the doctor away? -- The math of medical decision making -- How to determine the value of potential gains and losses to your health -- Making decisions -- Mr. B -- Beginning to make a decision -- The flow of information for people making medical decisions -- Mr. C -- Mrs. D's not-so-dramatic decision to make -- Using the informed medical-decision-making process for tests -- What if there is no reliable information? -- Clarifications -- Where to look for valuable medical information.