A Prescription for Patient Empowerment

Sick of Doctors?
A Prescription for Patient Empowerment
by Lorene M. Burkhart

We are all patients from the time we’re born until the time we die. The question is: How do we as patients become empowered in a medical culture that historically leaves us doing what the doctor says?

If you’re looking for quality in healthcare for yourself and your family, Sick of Doctors? A Prescription for Patient Empowerment is a must-read book.

The result of five-years of research and countless interviews with medical professionals, this book is one of the only health care empowerment books available today written from the perspective of a health care consumer. In 11 chapters and 196 pages, the easy-to-read text offers tips, tricks and stories that serve as resource to remind medical professionals and consumers alike that the old days are gone. Medical reform is changing the health care business and it’s time to work together! Readers will…

Review the history of healthcare dating back to the 1920s when doctors made house calls.
Discover how to shop for a doctor in today’s healthcare system.
Uncover doctor traits that could raise a red flag in your relationship.
Consider alternatives in health care that are recent trends in the system.
Hear from doctors who are great examples of caring professionals.
Prepare for the future with an insightful look from a professional with 70 plus years of experience.