Take-Charge Patient: How You Can Get the Best Medical Care by Martine Ehrenclou

Description: Take-Charge Patient by Martine Ehrenclou Frustrated or confused about how to get good medical care? The Take-Charge Patient (winner 18 book awards) empowers patients to become proactive, well informed participants in their own care. The book reveals insider information on how you can take charge to cut through the red tape and navigate todays complex health care system with confidence. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Frustrated or confused about how to get good medical care? In her newest book, The Take-Charge Patient: How You Can Get The Best Medical Care, (Lemon Grove Press, on sale May 15, 2012) award-winning author and patient advocate, Martine Ehrenclou, empowers patients to become proactive, well informed participants in their own care. With advice and personal stories from over 200 doctors, nurses, pharmacists, health psychologists, patients and more, The Take-Charge Patient reveals insider information on how to cut through the red tape and navigate todays complex health care system with confidence. Author Biography Martine Ehrenclou is an award-winning author, patient advocate and speaker. Author of the multiple award-winning, Critical Conditions, and her newest health book, The Take-Charge Patient, Martine is focused on empowering patients so they become experts on how navigate and take charge of their medical care. With her last book, Critical Conditions, and her newest book, her mission is to bring to light the importance of being an advocate for others and for ourselves. Through her books, published articles, media interviews, and lectures, Martine Ehrenclou reveals insider information on how to work the healthcare system for the patients benefit.Through her extensive research and her own recent chronic pain medical condition, Martine learned firsthand how to be a take-charge patient by using her own strategies in her new book. She went from author and advocate for others to an advocate for herself. After seeing eleven physicians, undergoing nine procedures and surgeries, being prescribed twenty-two medications, she finally found a doctor who diagnosed her correctly and cured her medical condition.Martine writes monthly articles for several health websites, regularly publishes articles on the topics of patient empowerment, patient advocacy, patient safety and other health/medical related issues. She consistently receives national exposure and is interviewed by TV, radio and other media. Martine lectures at universities, hospitals, organizations and libraries, and writes a monthly blog and newsletter. Review "Ehrenclou sets a proactive tone for this empowering and refreshing roadmap to navigating the torturous healthcare system, outlining everything from how to manage health information to finding lower-cost/free healthcare. Each chapter has a patient checklist that is encouraging and practical. Full of cogent information, this exhaustive guide functions best as reference material for patients who want to take on their own case." (Publishers Weekly)"For anyone facing a complex diagnosis or condition in todays increasingly complicated health world, The Take-Charge Patient is a valuable tool and guide with sound advice that wont soon be outdated. Ehrenclou covers everything with the kind of authority and know-how only someone who has experienced these challenges first-hand can achieve. The information is thorough, the tone comforting, and straightforward suggestions make even the most daunting tasks seem doable." (ForeWord Reviews)"Every American family should read and keep a copy of the excellent The Take-Charge Patient, the well researched, fantastically organized book by Martine Ehrenclou. A definite keeper, it is not boring or overwhelming, all of the information is very practical and explained in an approachable, easy-to-follow and understand way. It offers credible information, necessary for a solid foundation on which to make better healthcare decisions for ourselves and those we care about." (Reader Views Reviews)"Theres simply no better book on the market than this one... its a godsend. The author has interviewed dozens of medical professionals and patients, and distilled it all into a series of straight-talking common sense pointers. Anybody having medical dealings - especially newly-diagnosed first-timers to the hospital world - will benefit from this much-needed book. So you patients and prospective patients out there: buy The Take-Charge Patient for its deftly demystifying chapters." (Open Letters Monthly Review)"A brilliant and powerful roadmap for your success. The Take-Charge Patient masterfully assists us in knowing how to take care of ourselves medically in this very challenging world." (Huffington Post)"An excellent resource that should be available in every home, business, and medical facility. The suggestions and information in The Take-Charge Patient are practical and realistic. The writing is easy to understand and well-researched." (Bestsellers World)"A resource that should be available in every home, business, and medical facility. The suggestions and information in The Take-Charge Patient are practical and realistic. The writing style is easy to understand and keeps the reader interested as each chapter continues." (Midwest Book Review)"Ehrenclou has done a masterful job in thoroughly packing her book with extremely persuasive and useful advice about what it means to take a proactive stance when it comes to your health. The text is precise, well-researched, reader friendly, enriched with compelling examples and anecdotes. Without doubt, this book will bring attention to the need to change our mindsets from being reactive to becoming proactive concerning our health care, which has never been more important than it is today." (Book Pleasures) Review Quote What role can patients play if they want to get the best medical care? Details ISBN0981524036 Author Martine Ehrenclou Publisher Lemon Grove Press LLC Language English ISBN-10 0981524036 ISBN-13 9780981524030 Media Book Format Paperback Short Title TAKE CHARGE PATIENT Subtitle How You Can Get the Best Medical Care Imprint Lemon Grove Press LLC Place of Publication Santa Monica, CA Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2019-01-09 NZ Release Date 2019-01-09 US Release Date 2019-01-09 Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-01-09 UK Release Date 2019-01-09 Pages 320 DEWEY 362.11 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:138872075;

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