Take-Charge Patient: How You Can Get the Best Medical Care
The Take-Charge Patient Puts the Expertise of 200 Medical Professionals in Your Hands.
Frustrated or confused about how to get good medical care? In her newest book, The Take-Charge Patient: How You Can Get The Best Medical Care, (winner of 18 book awards) author and patient advocate, Martine Ehrenclou, empowers patients to become proactive, well informed participants in their own care. With advice and personal stories from over 200 doctors, nurses, pharmacists, health psychologists, patients and more, The Take-Charge Patient reveals insider information on how to cut through the red tape and navigate today's complex health care system with confidence.
Ehrenclou empowers readers with vital information on how to find the right doctor, how to communicate effectively with doctors, how to prepare for medical appointments, prevent medical errors and medication mistakes, obtain discounted medication, manage your health insurance, and much more. The Take-Charge Patient will forever change how you act as a patient and thereby vastly improve the quality of the medical care you receive.
Six months into her research for The Take-Charge Patient, Martine Ehrenclou developed debilitating, chronic pain and used every strategy in her new book. She went from author and advocate for others to an advocate for herself and became a take-charge patient. After eleven doctors failed to diagnose her correctly, Martine found her own diagnosis and the correct surgeon to treat her. She is now pain free.
According to Ehrenclou, your health care is a team sport. The Take-Charge Patient shows you how to take charge of what you can and become an effective player. Martine Ehrenclou has also written the 16 award-winning Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital. Guide to Get Your Loved One Out Alive (Lemon Grove Press). Ehrenclou writes monthly articles for several health websites, national magazines, and is interviewed regularly on national TV and radio such as ABC News, ABC World News, Woman's Day, Family Circle, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Publishers Weekly, and many more. She frequently lectures on how to be an advocate for yourself and your loved ones at universities, hospitals and various organizations.
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"Ehrenclou sets a proactive tone for this empowering and refreshing roadmap to navigating the torturous healthcare system, outlining everything from how to manage health information to finding lower-cost/free healthcare. Each chapter has a patient checklist that is encouraging and practical. Full of cogent information, this exhaustive guide functions best as reference material for patients who want to take on their own case." (Publishers Weekly)
"For anyone facing a complex diagnosis or condition in today's increasingly complicated health world, The Take-Charge Patient is a valuable tool and guide with sound advice that won't soon be outdated. Ehrenclou covers everything with the kind of authority and know-how only someone who has experienced these challenges first-hand can achieve. The information is thorough, the tone comforting, and straightforward suggestions make even the most daunting tasks seem doable." (ForeWord Reviews)
"Every American family should read and keep a copy of the excellent The Take-Charge Patient, the well researched, fantastically organized book by Martine Ehrenclou. A definite keeper, it is not boring or overwhelming, all of the information is very practical and explained in an approachable, easy-to-follow and understand way. It offers credible information, necessary for a solid foundation on which to make better healthcare decisions for ourselves and those we care about." (Reader Views Reviews)
"There's simply no better book on the market than this one... it's a godsend. The author has interviewed dozens of medical professionals and patients, and distilled it all into a series of straight-talking common sense pointers. Anybody having medical dealings - especially newly-diagnosed first-timers to the hospital world - will benefit from this much-needed book. So you patients and prospective patients out there: buy The Take-Charge Patient for its deftly demystifying chapters." (Open Letters Monthly Review)
"A brilliant and powerful roadmap for your success. The Take-Charge Patient masterfully assists us in knowing how to take care of ourselves medically in this very challenging world." (Huffington Post)
"An excellent resource that should be available in every home, business, and medical facility. The suggestions and information in The Take-Charge Patient are practical and realistic. The writing is easy to understand and well-researched." (Bestsellers World)
"A resource that should be available in every home, business, and medical facility. The suggestions and information in The Take-Charge Patient are practical and realistic. The writing style is easy to understand and keeps the reader interested as each chapter continues." (Midwest Book Review)
"Ehrenclou has done a masterful job in thoroughly packing her book with extremely persuasive and useful advice about what it means to take a proactive stance when it comes to your health. The text is precise, well-researched, reader friendly, enriched with compelling examples and anecdotes. Without doubt, this book will bring attention to the need to change our mindsets from being reactive to becoming proactive concerning our health care, which has never been more important than it is today." (Book Pleasures)
