Medical Tests You Can Do Yourself: Safe, Simple Procedures for Diagnosing Illnesses, Injuries, & Other Medical Conditions at Home

by Herbert Haessler and Raymond Harris

Book Overview

This book offers detailed analyses of each of the systems in the human body and shows how to perform safe, simple, noninvasive tests to help determine whether or not a body is functioning properly. 50... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809230380
• ISBN13: 9780809230389
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

A Must Have for Self-Prevention and Early Diagnose

This book offers in a clear and practical way all he information needed about the primary systems and organs of the human body, while explaining how to realize easy and non-aggressive tests at home, using only a set of very simple instruments: a thermometer, a blood-pressure meter, an stethoscope, and the most important: your hands, your eyes, your ears, and the basic knowledge about human body functioning given by this book. It explains over 1000 of the most common medical tests in alphabetical order, giving a description of the test, patient preparation, reference ranges, abnormal values, costs, and comments, which include special instructions or precautions. A must have reference about self-prevention that shows how diagnose your own health. This way, as a informed patient, and if the potential need for a physician's intervention arises, you can help him get the best and definitive diagnose.

How to become an informed partner with your doctor

A bookfull of simple tests that don't require any special training or expensive equipment,but can tell you when your body systems are functioning normally and when you should consult a doctor. And when you do go to a doctor for a checkup, you can give him or her an intelligent and informed appraisal of what's going on. Tells you things your doctor wants you to tell him.