You and your doctor : a guide to a healing relationship, with physicians' insights / Tania Heller.
By: Heller, Tania.
Series: McFarland health topics series. ©2012Description: 200 p: 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780786462933 (softcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Physician and patient | Communication in medicineGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | R727.3 .H46 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000015409 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Understanding the doctor-patient relationship -- The pediatrician-family relationship -- Adolescence -- Internal medicine and family practice -- Geriatrics -- Challenging situations -- Technology and the doctor-patient relationship -- Interviews with specialists -- How to find the right physicians -- Making the relationship work -- Conclusion: my reflections.
"This welcome volume offers practical information to help patients make the most of their interaction with their doctors. Among the topics discussed are finding the right physicians, gaining direct telephone access to a doctor, ensuring good communication between health care providers, protecting personal health information, seeking a second opinion, and using walk-in clinics"--