How to Be Your Own Doctor [Paperback]

Carl E. Shrader (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2004

Save yourself the time and money it costs you to see a doctor by learning to be your own!

Written in plain English from the point of view of experienced M.D. Carl E. Shrader, How to Be Your Own Doctor is full of practical suggestions you can use to give yourself a vital advantage when it comes to your health. Dr. Shrader will tell you everything you need to know to save yourself many times the cost of this book by:
• Preventing costly accidents and diseases
• Using inexpensive home remedies
• Saving money on prescription drugs
• Avoiding unnecessary doctor's visits, misdiagnoses, and expensive surgeries

This book has information to help keep every member of your family in excellent health. You'll learn about everything from pregnancy and infant care to arthritis and Alzheimer's, including choosing a doctor, dealing with HMOs, allergies, drug addiction, sex after 60, and over a hundred other health and safety issues you and your family face every day.

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About the Author

Carl E. Shrader, M.D. has treated patients for everything from whiplash to acne in the more than 40 years that he has been a family practitioner. Board certified in family practice, Dr. Shrader has been practicing medicine in Arizona since 1966, and is also licensed to practice in Oregon and Colorado. He was a Captain in the United States Air Force, and has been the primary doctor for two different hospital emergency rooms, as well as spending almost 40 years as the team doctor for high school teams. Over the years, Dr. Shrader has delivered over 1100 babies and performed uncounted thousands of major and minor surgical procedures.

Dr. Shrader is a Deacon of the Presbyterian Church, member of MENSA, and past president of the Kosciusko YMCA in Warsaw, Indiana; Flagstaff Rotary Club; Doctors Village Corporation; and the Mountain Macintosh Users Group. He was a Cub Scout Cubmaster for 13 years and enjoys running, skiing, golf, bridge and tennis in his spare time.

Product Details

• Paperback: 502 pages
• Publisher: Acacia Publishing, Inc. (March 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967118786
• ISBN-13: 978-0967118789
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,814,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a MUST HAVE on your bookshelf!, April 14, 2004

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Helen K. Campbell "brelena" (Lufkin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Be Your Own Doctor (Paperback)

I am an RN. I know only too well how expensive and time consuming trips are to the Doctor--or worse--to the ER clinic.

This book offers excellent advice for every day (and not so every day) maladies that will allow individuals to, in effect, provide "self-triage."

Often, Dr. Shrader advises his readers to check with their own physicians, but more often, he gives medical advice that makes a trip to the doctor unnecessary. He also gives pointers on how to save money on perscriptions. For quite some time, I've been searching for a book written by a person with legitimate credentials. Thankfully, this is now available to the public.

This book is also a fun read. It's full of anecdotes that will make you laugh and appreciate this Doctor's warm humor.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Doctor, Good Book, June 11, 2007

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S. Jett (Munds Park AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Be Your Own Doctor (Paperback)

I purchased this book because Dr. Shrader, my doctor, mentioned he had written a book.Having had wonderful care and advice from this gentleman, I wanted to see his book and his ideas on subjects other than my individual health issues. This book is written in an easy-to-understand format. Very informative and relevant to the health issues we all face. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in keeping themselves healthy and cutting down on doctor appointments (and their expense) by acquiring knowledge regarding their own health issues.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good resource for family healthcare, April 17, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Be Your Own Doctor (Paperback)

This book is full of commonsense advice on how to be your own doctor and reduce expensive and unnecessary trips to the doctor. It has fun anecdotes about his years as a family practice physician, starting from the years when house calls were still common practice.
In addition to advice about when to be your own doctor, it also gives you warning signs about when it is necessary to seek medical care. As an RN with 9 years of emergency room experience, I have seen how the high cost of an emergency room visit can transform a simple problem into a large expense. This book will help you decide.