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"The Professional Patient: How to Make the Medical System Work for You"
It is now possible, for the first time in history, to live to the full potential human life span of ninety to one hundred years. The challenge is to live in good health throughout that lifetime. This requires that every one learns about the conditions of health and assumes a whole new dimension of personal responsibility. The American medical system is designed to cure illness and repair trauma. It is unequalled in accomplishing these ends. It is not, however, a system that fosters health and wellness. There are virtually no financial incentives for physicians clinics or hospitals to work for the creation of healthy patients. The chief goal of the American medical system is to keep patients alive. Their health is pretty much up to them. The American medical system can perform near miracles in the cure of disease and trauma. But it can also do great harm and even kill if its power is misdirected. To a degree never before imagined ensuring that medical care has good outcomes is up to the patient. Unless the patient is able to participate in his or her own care with knowledge and intelligence and in partnership with medical professionals, the potential power of medicine to restore and promote health is severely limited. This program explores and explains the role of the patient in twenty-first century medical care. It stresses the active role of the patient, working in partnership with the physician, to ensure that the system achieves cure when that is necessary and promotes maximum health and wellness for every patient. “Professional Patient” provides, beyond an explanation of how medical science has ensured living to the human life-span, specific instructions on what patients and their families must know and do in order to ensure that the medical system operates with maximum efficiency and effectiveness, not only to cure and heal but to promote the achievement of health and wellness for every patient. It provides practical every-day directions for creating patient-physician partnerships and for minimizing the risks which accompany every visit to the doctor or the hospital. |
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