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The Essential
Patient Handbook
Getting the Healthcare You Need - From the Doctors Who Know
Alan B. Ettinger, MD and Deborah M. Weisbrot, MD
Product Details:
ISBN: 1-932603-02-6
Format: Softcover, 312 pages
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: Demos Medical
Publishing
Regular Price: $19.95
Web Dsicount Price: $16.96
Posted: February
8, 2005
Editorial
Review
by: Julia Klein, RN, MS, FNPC, MSCN
The authors developed this handbook following personnal difficulties they both
encountered while "being" the patient. The text provides a clear and
detailed aid for the patient to negotiate their healthcare. The value of this
work to the website audience (professionals in MS care) is as a resource for
patients to help facilitate their medical visits, and organize their medical
history.
How to organize health related information before the encounter, make and keep
concise past medical history, present a cheif complaint, and to "deal"
with difficult doctors are reviewed. This information is clearly delivered,
with worksheets to facilitate organized and patient directed medical encounters.
Pre-planning each encounter is the focus of each section, to enable the patient
to get the most out of the encounter within the time constrained environment
of the hospital or clinic.
The strength of this format is to encourage the patient to take care of their
health information through documentation of health history, symptoms, and document
past and ongoing health history. A potential weakness may be an inflated expectation
of unlimited time allowed for the patient-doctor encounter.
The detailed specific provided to assist the patient to prepare notes for a
medical visit are clear and thourough. If used as suggested the patient will
be better prepared to facilitate valuble discussion for each medical encounter.
The suggested forms which are found throughout the text are clear and user friendly.
Citations are up to date.
About the Authors:
Alan B. Ettinger, M.D. is Chief of the Division of Epilepsy
and Electroencephalography, Department of Neurology, at Long Island Jewish
Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, and director of the Huntington
Hospital Seizure Monitoring Program in Huntington, New York. He is Associate
Professor in the Department of Clinical Neurology at the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, President of the Long Island Epilepsy Foundation Professional
Advisory Board, and has published widely in medical journals and textbooks
on the topic of epilepsy.
Deborah M. Weisbrot, M.D. is Director of the Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic and is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at
the University Medical Center at Stony Brook, NY. Dr. Weisbrot has focused
her clinical and research work in the areas of anxiety and aggression, and
the psychiatric aspects of medical illness in children and adolescents.
Drs. Ettinger and Weisbrot, a husband-wife team, have collaborated in researching
depression, anxiety, and coping with medical illness. Both are cited in New
York Magazine"s list of "Best Doctors". When out of the medical office, they
also collaborate in raising their two sons.
 About
the Reviewer:
Julia Klein, RN, MS, FNPC and Certified MS Nurse has worked
in the clinical setting with multiple sclerosis patients for nine years. She
is affiliated with the University of Utah MS clinic in Salt Lake City, Utah.
She enjoys all outdoor activities, her dogs and cat.
02/08/2005
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