Health Care & You: A Guide to Navigating the Health Care System and Being Your Own Best Advocate

ISBN-10: 173233630X
ISBN-13: 9781732336308
Category: Health & Fitness
Pages: 238
Language: English
Published: 2018-06-19
Author: Diane Mullins

Description

The essential guide to help you manage your health and the health care you receive, and to advocate for the best care available for you and your loved ones. Has your experience in today's ever-changing health care system left you feeling overwhelmed, confused, or frustrated? Do you lie awake at night worrying about how to get the care you or your loved ones need and deserve without jeopardizing your family's financial security? Do you want to learn how to make the best possible health care decisions, to achieve the best possible outcomes? Health Care & You is designed to help you answer these questions and more. Whether you have an acute or chronic condition, are a caregiver for someone who does, or just want to know how to make informed health care decisions for yourself and your family, this book can offer you guidance. Diane Mullins, a registered nurse with an MBA in health care management, will help direct your course in today's tumultuous health care industry. In an easy-to-read, conversational format, she explains how certain tools, resources, and techniques can help you find your way through this confusing, challenging, and often intimidating system. She enhances her book with stories - some of them poignant - from her own life, conveying her passion for informed decision-making, self-management, and health care advocacy. Diane will point you in the right direction - holding your hand securely as you feel your way across the health care landscape.

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