Taking Charge of Your Own Health
Contents
Quick Reference Guide to Information Sections................................................9
Foreword.....................................................................................................9
Introduction.................................................................................................13
Into the Abyss.............................................................................................13
Lisa’s search for diagnosis
Part 1: Taking Responsibility for Your Health
1. “Treatment is 95 Percent Diagnosis"..........................................................31
How to help your doctor find a correct answer
2. Head it Off at the Pass, Part One...............................................................47
Strengthening Your System
3. Head it Off at the Pass, Part Two...............................................................63
Reducing Your Risk Factors
4. The Rights and Responsibilities of Patients..................................................75
Proactively using healthcare
5. What Kind of Practitioner Do I Need?..........................................................91
Surveying ability and availability
6. When Good Hospitals Go Bad...................................................................113
Avoiding the pitfalls and taking advantages of the resources
7. “Someone Took Away Our Swords,” Part One...........................................133
Finding success with insurance providers
8. “Someone Took Away Our Swords,” Part Two..........................................147
Dealing with drug/dental/vision coverage, disability and workers’ compensation
Part 2: Taking Charge of Your Attitude
9. “Find Happiness Wherever You Can”...................................................161
Managing adversity and seeing its gifts
10. Understanding God’s Will.......................................................................179
Finding meaning in your experience
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