Navigating the Healthcare Maze: What You Need to Know

by Jeff Knott and Jeffrey F. Knott

Book Overview

The primary purpose of this book is to empower readers and encourage them to become proactive consumer-patients. This book isn't an attempt to be politically correct, but is dedicated to providing tools that readers can put to use when they encounter challenges when making their best efforts to navigate their way into, through and out of the maze that has become our healthcare system. Americans are concerned more about healthcare than the mortgage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932021302
• ISBN13: 9781932021301
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: DC Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A practical & good understanding of health care

Before reading this book, I was asking myself if I just liked doing boring things. However, as I am beginning to age a little, more knowledge about the healthcare process certainly could not hurt. So, I read the book and am I glad I did. It was not boring and gave me insights I could not get anywhere else. The book was written in such a way that it was not only interesting but applicable to most of our lives. We are all going to meet such situations described in the book and it is nice to have some advance knowledge of what will happen and what we can do personally to make things better for ourself. I would recommend this book highly to anyone who would like to have some inside info on what happens with doctors, hospitals, and medical care in general. Georgia Zapata

Very timely book on surviving healthcare

A valuable guide through our healthcare system to survive all the challenges that we face when we need medical care. Well written in easy to read style. A must for every family, especially during these hard times and the "hot' subject of healthcare reform.

A MUST READ for everyone

Whether you are single, married, or have a family, you MUST read this book and get prepared for what could happen if you ever have to go to the doctor or hospital. If you are an employer or an HR director, I encourage you to get a hold of the author & invite him to talk to your employees to help educate them on key survival tips to navigate this complicated maze called our healthcare system. As a personnal & workplace wellness consultant, I educate my clients on the steps they can take to stay healthy in the first place, but accidents do happen, so wellness & preparedness go together. Buy the book, read it, and implement it!

a must buy!

Mr. Knott has written a most comprehensive and helpful book offering down to earth, easy to understand information required when dealing with hospitalization and/or general health/medical care. Mr. Knott points out that we as consumers, have to be pro-active in our own healthcare by actively participating & engaging in conversation with our treating doctors, familiarizing ourselves with our own general health and/or illness, and learning to ask "pro-active" straight forward questions. Doctors are not just responsible here, we, as consumers (owning the rights to our body) are equally responsible. The book will help navigate you thru the ever changing healthcare system and offer you the advice, information and support required to provide you with best medical/health care available today. As he so jokingly mentions...we invest more time shopping for a piece of furniture than spending any significant amount of time in the selection of a Primary Care Physician and/or specialist that might be in charge of saving our life one day:} Become pro-active today by reading this extremely helpful & insightful book.

A "must" read for all families

This really is a "must" read for all families. It put our priorities back in their right place. Our health and our body is the most important priorities in our existence. We had spent more time researching and visiting different stores before we bought our new flat screen TV and the same for basically all our major purchases. However, when we came to going to the doctor or the hospoital we had left it in the hands of the doctors and nurses. The book points out all the dangers in our healthcare maze and to be totally prepared before we visit the doctor or hospital. The book taught us all the little proven tips that are so helpful when visiting the doctor and hospital. We are certainly going to buy more copies asap to give out as gifts at Christmas to all our relatives and friends. We may even save lives with this book. Wow- the book is easy to read with plenty of references and proven tips that we have already used. Thank you for writing this much needed book!!