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How to Be Your Own Doctor

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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.

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.

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.

This book is an excellent source of information on the do's and don'ts of healthcare. The reason I bought this book is because Carl has been my physician off and on for most of my life and happens to be my Godfather. I have been to other physicians but I find that nearly all are lacking in his extensive background and knowledge. His approach to his practice and this book is one of no nonsense and it's packed with years of knowledge from the absolute best physician I have ever been to. If you purchase this book, you won't be sorry!

I am the mother of two young children and constantly am taking my kids to the doctor. I saw this doctor on television with Heidi what's-her-name on ABC and got his book. There's lots of good common sense doctor stuff in there. Stuff that you don't have to go take your kids and sit in a waiting room with a bunch of sick people to find out. Sometimes I think sitting in the waiting room can make you sicker than you are. Especially kids. So I'm happy to be able to flip to any topic I need: Food poisoning, cuts and bruises, etc, etc, and find out what to do right at home. And the title's right, I've already saved a bunch of money. Thanks Dr. Shrader!!

I found this book to be very practical, full of common sense information that is not seen too often in the medical profession these days. The anecdotes were fun to read and gave a feel for what life is like for a family doctor, one in the old style, when house calls were still common place. The high cost of medical care these days makes it a priority to be able to determine when to spend your money to go see a doctor. This book helps do that. I would recommend this book to anyone.