Listen to Me, Doctor: Taking Charge of Your Own Health Care - Softcover

Her experiences with health care professionals after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease when five months pregnant motivated Schwartz to become a wise health care consumer. She learned to traverse the health care maze to get the information and treatment she needed. In this book, she asserts that the profit-making medical structure is the nation's fastest-growing business and, like any business, can be negotiated by knowledgeable consumers. She provides guidelines for those seeking a physician and separate sections on women's, men's, children's, and seniors' health care. Particularly interesting is a chapter on saving money while getting the highest quality care; it includes brief discussions of prevention, wellness, and stress reduction, of cost savings to be realized while hospitalized, and of practices affecting the cost of prescription drugs. Whitney Scott