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"The Professional Patient: How to Make the Medical System Work for You"
It is now probable, for the first time in history, for most people 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. The primary function of the American medical system is not to keep people healthy; it is to keep them alive. Good health is an individual responsibility. The American medical system is designed to cure illness and to repair trauma…to keep the patient alive. It is not 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. Insurance, private or governmental pays only for cure and repair, not for preventive maintenance. The American medical system can perform near miracles in the cure of disease and trauma. But it can also to 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 in able to participate in his or her own cure 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 medial system operated 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.
The Professional Patient….
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