Special Treatment or Internet Safety

Special Treatment: How to Get the Same High-Quality Health Care Your Doctor Gets

Author: Kevin J Soden

Doctors have a built-in advantage when it comes to getting extra-special medical care. Their knowledge and connections help them to get better faster-and avoid unnecessary risks. Now, distinguished The Today Show medical consultants and NBC News national health care reporters Drs. Kevin J. Soden and Christine Dumas provide information on:

- What tests a doctor would demand
- How a doctor picks a doctor
- What doctors know about hospitals
- How doctors make decisions about medications, physical therapy, surgery, and more
- Even doctors need a second opinion: where they go to get one
- How doctors pick a specialist
- How a doctor bounces back faster after surgery
- What doctors know about the ER
- Where a doctor gets the latest medical information-and readers can, too
- What doctors know about preventing and treating the top three killers of men and women
- What doctors know about reducing their risk of the most preventable cancers
- What doctors know about living a longer and healthier life

Author Biography: Dr. Kevin J. Soden, an ER physician for 23 years, is the National Medical Reporter for NBC News and won the 2001 National Award for Excellence in Medical Reporting. Dr. Christine Dumas is a practicing dentist and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Dentistry at the University of Southern California, as well as a health reporter for The Today Show and MSNBC. She has received Presidential Citations for her contributions to the field. Together, the authors lecture regularly to the AMA, National Institutes of Health, and major corporations.

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Internet Safety

Author: Josepha Sherman

The Internet offers its users the opportunity to learn, communicate, and have fun online. To navigate this electronic world safely, there are many things that Internet users need to know, such as selecting a good password. This book discusses the possible hazards of e-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging, and online sites and provides information on how to avoid common safety problems.

School Library Journal

Gr 3-5-Both titles offer up-to-date information. History begins with the development of ARPANET for the military, tracing its growth to the present and the amazing possibilities for the future. Safety offers suggestions on selecting a password, using e-mail, participating in chat rooms, and online auctions and shopping. Readers will find the section on netiquette and emoticons especially interesting. Tightly written, with a slightly different viewpoint than similar titles, each book gives a balanced presentation of the importance of the Internet as well as its pitfalls. Large color photographs enhance the texts.-Pamela K. Bomboy, Chesterfield County Public Schools, VA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1	Thieves and Cookies	7
Chapter 2	E-Mail Problems	19
Chapter 3	Chat Rooms	29
Chapter 4	Going Shopping	37
Chapter 5	The Rules of Netiquette	45
	Glossary	54
	To Find Out More	56
	A Note on Sources	59
	Index	60