Working with Your Doctor or Aromatherapy

Working with Your Doctor: Getting the Healthcare You Deserve

Author: Nancy Keen

Getting excellent health care in today's world requires that you actively participate in the process, whether you receive care from individual physicians, a group practice, or an HMO. Working with Your Doctor: Getting the Healthcare You Deserve teaches you to be your own advocate, to get the very best in health care, and to have the best possible relationship with your doctors.

What People Are Saying

Linda Peeno
The essence of medicine and the experience of healing is in the relationships -- the primary relationship being the doctor. This book captures the critical human dimension very impressively.

James Dougherty
Working with Your Doctor fills a genuine need for patients and their family members caught up in this new and intimidating age of impersonal, economically-driven health care delivery. Patients and doctors alike owe Nancy Keene a large debt of gratitude.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Taking Charge of Your Health Care	1
2	Finding the Right Doctor	19
3	Getting What You Need from Managed Care	45
4	Communication	75
5	Physician Rights and Responsibilities	103
6	Patient Rights and Responsibilities	131
7	Problem Solving	157
8	Getting a Second Opinion	175
9	Changing Doctors	191
10	Questions to Ask About Tests, Drugs, and Surgery	205
11	Taking Action if You Have Been Wronged	233
12	Clinical Trials	249
13	Researching the Medical Literature	269
A	Ethics Codes and Bills of Rights	301
B	American Board of Medical Specialties	307
C	Sources of Information on Medical Conditions	311
D	Sources of Information on General Medical Topics	325
E	Medical Information Search Companies	331
	Notes	333
	Suggested Reading	341
	Index	347

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Aromatherapy: A Complete Guide to the Healing Art

Author: Kathi Kevill

Comprehensive guide to using essential oils in health, beauty, and well being—updated, expanded & revised throughout to include new material on ayurvedic & ceremonial aromatherapy, massage, and herbal treatments. Draws on 75 combined years of experience in botanical therapies; more than 90 formulas included.