Take This Book to the Hospital With You: A Consumer Guide to Surviving Your Hospital Stay [Paperback]

Charles B. Inlander (Author), Ed Weiner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1997 | ISBN-10: 1882606701 | ISBN-13: 978-1882606702 | Edition: Rev Upd

Each time someone enters a hospital as a patient, his money and his life may be at risk. Consumers can now learn how to protect themselves when booking a hospital stay, how to avoid malpractice, take advantage of patient rights, and handle managed care matters. 10 charts.

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Take This Book To The Hospital With You provides "inside" information that will protect the reader from getting ripped off by inappropriate hospital activities and charges. Take This Book To The Hospital With You will show how to scrutizine a hospital bill for errors (more than 90% of hospital bills errors -- usually in favor of the hospital); avoid signing away your rights on hospital consent forms; get the treatment you need even if your managed-care comany disagrees; find out which hospital departments are most likely to commit malpractice, and much more. Lively, impassioned and practical, Take This Book To The Hospital With You is the savvy medical consumer's most powerful defense against the medical minefield known as a hospital. If community library acquisition budget will only permit one new medical reference title this year, then make that selection Take This Book To The Hospital With You. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Peoples Medical Society; Rev Upd edition (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882606701
• ISBN-13: 978-1882606702
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,151,751 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource - well-written and comprehensive, July 6, 2000

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Courtney L. Lewis "Sassy Librarian" (Kingston, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Take This Book To The Hospital With You: Newly Revised and Updated (Mass Market Paperback)

I'm preparing to have surgery in a month or so and have read MANY books on being the hospital, what to expect, etc. This book manages to combine all the "patient's rights/protect yourself" information with some very concrete questions to ask of the hospital administration when evaluating a facility. The appendix also has wonderful forms you can use for keeping track of who gives you what when, since after reading this book, you will inevitably be checking your bill with a magnifying glass (and finding numerous mistakes, as 98.5% of all hospital bills contain them, according to the author). Since this book is endorsed by the People's Medical Society, a non-profit consumer organization that I think has ties to the Rodale Foundation, it's nice to know that the revisions of this volume have input from previous readers sharing their experiences (and how the book helped them in their own hospital experience). I feel that I will be a better patient and advocate for myself as a result of reading it - and I definitely plan to bring it to the hospital!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the most important book you'll buy, January 30, 2000

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Erebor (usa) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Take This Book To The Hospital With You: Newly Revised and Updated (Mass Market Paperback)

This book makes all the difference. Hospital staff don't tell you anything about the system. They don't have the time and they don't want you to know, anyway. The information in here made sure my father had the best care possible. Like the first reviewer said, having it in your hand and on the table in the patient's room changes the care for the better. This book is invaluable. I wore mine out while in the hospital and could quote from it.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT'S ABOUT TIME SOMEBODY HELPED THE CONSUMER, May 24, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Take This Book to the Hospital With You: A Consumer Guide to Surviving Your Hospital Stay (A People's Medical Society Book) (Paperback)

This is clearly the most important book I own. Talk about helping consumers, Inlander and Weiner really take you inside a hospital stay and show you not to become a victim. I brought this book to the hospital with me and kept it hidden the first two days. On the third day, I took it out and they started treating me totally different. All of a sudden they were worried that I knew my rights and how to make things happen. My whole treatment improved and I felt like I was no longer in custody. This is a book everyone should keep on their shelf