Patient Self-help Guide: How to Talk to Your Doctor [Paperback]

Jane Williams (Author), Lorraine Griffin (Editor), griffin.inspired.com (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 30, 2006

Patient Self-Help Guide: How To Talk To Your Doctor provides important, easy to read and easy to follow information and tips on how to communicate better with your doctor to ensure that you receive the care you are entitled to: the best care available. Patient Self-Help Guide: How To Talk To Your Doctor provides important, easy to read and easy to follow information and tips on how to communicate better with your doctor to ensure that you receive the care you are entitled to: the best care available. Paired with Dr. Jerome Groopman's book, How Doctors Think, patients gain very valuable insight into the way doctors think and how to communicate effectively with their doctors. "From understanding doctor language ... How to Talk to Your Doctor is filled with important resources average consumers must have." California Bookwatch/Midwest Book Review, October 3, 2006. Some of the highlights of this indispensable new information and resource guide are: Misdiagnosis and Delayed Diagnosis Essential Patient Record-Keeping Forms Recruiting Healthcare Helpmates Understanding doctors and Their Language Healthcare Agencies and Resources List Patient Assistance Information State Medical and Osteopathic Boards List Senior Citizens Assistance Sites List Medical Terms and Definitions

Editorial Reviews

Review

"From understanding doctor language ... How to Talk to Your Doctor is filled with important resources average consumers must have." -- California Bookwatch/Midwest Book Review, October 3, 2006

About the Author

Jane Williams is a multi-time winner of the coveted pharmaceutical industry PresidentÂ’s Club Award, former certified sales trainer, consultant and recognized authority in the pharmaceutical sales industry. She formerly worked for Roche Biomedical and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals.

She has been interviewed several times by such entities as the Dallas Morning News and Selling Power Magazine. Additionally, she has served as a guest panelist on HireRx. Her bestselling book, the InsiderÂ’s Guide to the World of Pharmaceutical Sales, is utilized as a text and teaching tool for sales and marketing classes in universities across the United States and is the featured pharmaceutical sales interview guide on sites such as job-interview.net. Because of the phenomenal success of the InsiderÂ’s Guide, Ms. Williams receives frequent requests to attend seminars and speaking engagements.

Building upon her success in offering a comprehensive bestselling job interview guide and follow-up book,Professional Pharmaceutical Selling, for those aspiring to a pharmaceutical sales career, Ms. Williams has written a job interview guide that teaches interviewees to sell themselves during job interviews of all types. That title, Sell Yourself: Master the Job Interview Process quickly moved to a top sales position for "job interview" guides on sites such as Amazon.com.

Now Ms. Williams has written a much needed book, Patient Self-Help Guide..., that provides essential information to help patients communicate effectively with their physicians.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Principle Publications (May 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976645629
• ISBN-13: 978-0976645627
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,962,510 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent real-world help for patients., June 19, 2006

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Olivia Sullivan (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Patient Self-help Guide: How to Talk to Your Doctor (Paperback)

After an extensive search and at least six purchases, I found this new book, Patient Self-Help Guide: How to Talk to Your Doctor and it is a complete resource for any one who sees a doctor for any reason and I think that is probably everyone.

It's easy to read and understand. Not only have I discovered that there is an easy way to talk with AND understand my doctor, but the list of patient resources and medical terms directory make it so easy to find additional information of all types. You can find literally any information you may need to find about diseases, medical terms and all types of assistance sites either through this book or through the resources listed in the book. I love the record-keeping forms in the book!

I highly recommend the Patient Self-Help Guide for use by all types of patients of all ages and especially the elderly. The next gift my parents receive from me will definitely be this book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Filled with excellent information., July 18, 2006

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Jackie Hobson (Clovis, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Patient Self-help Guide: How to Talk to Your Doctor (Paperback)

Patient Self-Help Guide: How to Talk to Your Doctor contains excellent information and some very good advice. After reading this book, I realize that I can talk with my doctor even if I'm not an expert on medical matters and understand the diagnosis and information collecting procedures well enough to get good medical care, and know when I'm not getting good care. That's just as important. It's nice to have a simple method outlined for understanding doctors and my health issues better. There's an excellent list of resources for patient aid in this book as well. This book is a bargain and a must have for anyone who doesn't work in the medical field.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for the average Joe or Jane., April 26, 2007

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Susan Boswell (Ft. Worth, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Patient Self-help Guide: How to Talk to Your Doctor (Paperback)

Patient Self-Help Guide: How to Talk to Your Doctor contains very important information that patients need to communicate with doctors. Jane Williams teaches patients how to accurately and quickly describe their symptoms to help their doctors make accurate diagnoses the first time and avoid the diagnostic problems outlined in Dr. Groopman's, How Doctors Think book, and does so in plain language that the average patient can easily understand.

I think a major benefit of this book to patients is that it will encourage them to speak up and to seek out other doctors for help if they do not receive the help they need from their doctor. Doctors are human and therefore fallible. While I admire and respect doctors, they are not all equal in medical education, training, experience and communication skills.

Although doctors are also patients, I do not think they can truly relate to the difficulties that the average patient encounters while attempting to describe the symptoms of their illnesses to their doctors. The average patient is not trained or treated as a medical expert or given the special consideration of time that one doctor will extend to another. When a doctor presents his symptoms to another doctor, he is automatically considered credible and because he understands the medical language, the two doctors will communicate on an entirely different level than that on which the average patient will communicate with their doctor.

The Patient Self-Help Guide: How to Talk to Your Doctor and How Doctors Think are both very good books with each having different but beneficial information. How Doctors Think focuses more on understanding the way doctors think and Patient Self-Help Guide covers this also, but focuses more on helping the patient communicate effectively with doctors based on the way doctors think. The two books compliment each other and provide great information to the patient. However, the Patient Self-Help Guide provides detailed communication information, is easier to read, and supplies many resources to help patients including forms to fill out and take to their doctors appointments.