How Not to Be My Patient: A Physician's Secrets for Staying Healthy and Surviving Any Diagnosis

by Edward T. Creagan and Sandra Wendel

Book Overview

COVID changed everything. Mayo Clinic's Dr. Edward Creagan addresses critical changes in the healthcare delivery system and survivorship in this REVISED third edition of his award-winning book on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075730110X
• ISBN13: 9780757301100
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Hci
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

How Not to Be My Patient: A Physician's Secrets for Staying Healthy and Surviving Any Diagnosis

This was a great book for both the cancer patient as well as the family. Sound advice for healthy living with diet, excercise and mental health attention. Creagan continuously promotes an educated patient. Having read the book during a family member's own struggle with cancer, Creagan shows how the patient can be thier own "chairman of the board" with a circle of trusted advisors. The physician is just one of these advisors and plays the role of 'quarterback' with an empowered and educated patient calling the plays. Creagan's insertion of "humanism' in medicine clearly stands out! I highly recommend this book to those wanting to just clean up their lifestyle as well as those recently diagnosed with cancer.

Take Notice, America

Dr. Creagan provides medicine to treat the ills of the healthcare system...with sweet spoonfuls of humor and humility. He offers a compelling case for health promotion and patient empowerment. Grooming patients to become more informed consumers of healthcare is the key solution to our crisis of soaring healthcare costs and the erosion of the relationship between doctor and patient. Dr. Creagan's uses "insider information" and does the job well.

Dr. Creagan makes good common sense

How NOT to Be My Patient is a book that incorporates the rare combination of being easy to read, full of useful common sense information, and not preachy.As a health professional, I found the information useful to me personally, and I have recommended it to my colleagues and family.

EXCELLENT RESOURCE

I think Dr. Creagan did a masterful job of making sense out of the intimidating world of medicine for the average person. I applaud his book! Everyone should own it!

This doctor is buying copies of the book for his friends

I'm an author, educator and media personality, I was blown away by Dr. Creagan and Wendel's new book, How Not to Be My Patient. As the veterinarian for ABC TV's Good Morning America, Knight Ridder Newspapers pet columnist, nationally syndicated talk radio host, and author of several books including The Healing Power of Pets, I'm always looking for an edge when it comes to my health, and the health of those I love. Most books about healthy living or beating back physical adversity are either too anecdotal for my liking, or written in such a way as to be boring or too hard to follow. Not this book! From the very first pages, I found How Not to Be My Patient research-based but easy to understand, comprehensive without being overwhelming, fun to read rather than drudgery. Plus the book is packed full of quick facts, reference lists, and vividly written stories that make the tactics for healthy living come alive!This year, I'm giving everyone on my Christmas list this book. How Not to Be My Patient promises to help each of them live a happier, healthier, fuller life.Two paws way up, two thumbs way up for this book!