Your Health, Your Decisions: How to Work with Your Doctor to Become a Knowledge-Powered Patient

by Robert Alan McNutt

In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician's decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed, medical-expertise model of making decisions, presenting a practical approach augmented by formal exercises designed to give patients the tools and confidence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146968358X
• ISBN13: 9781469683584
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"