Getting the Best from Your Doctor: An Insider's Guide to the Health Care You Deserve

Drastic changes in health care--the proliferation of management organizations, shrinking insurance plans, and skyrocketing medical costs--are not only complicated and irritating, but may be endangering your well-being. Now in this timely, indispensable guide, four experienced health professionals give you the knowledge and skills you need to get the optimal, quality health care essential for you and your family. In clear, honest language they help you navigate the complexities of modern health care as they explain how to: <ul>
<li> Find the right doctor for you and your family </li>
<li> Communicate effectively with your doctor </li>
<li> Know and understand your medical rights </li>
<li> Explore all treatment options, from traditional to alternative and combination methods </li>
<li> Create your own medical miracles </li>
<li> Overcome bureaucratic barriers and insurance regulations</li>
<li> Prepare your medical history </li>
<li> Become your own best patient advocate</li>
<li> And much more, including over 40 exercises and tips on Internet research</li>
</ul>

Getting The Best From Your Doctor: An Insider's Guide To The Health Care You Deserve

Solomon, Andrew

Myers, Tracy

Jimenez, Richard

Schwartz, Alan N.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

HarperTorch

This work digs deep and painfully into personal experience of depression and mental illness, while also considering the wider picture: the historical, social, biological, pharmaceutical and medical aspects and implications of the disease. Having experienced what he is writing about firsthand, Solomon describes the experience from the inside. He has also researched every aspect of depression, including: the historical treatment and study of "melancholy" as far back as the Greeks and Romans (who believed that cauliflower was good for depression), and through to the side effects of the pharmaceutical cocktails of the present day; case histories of people in out of mental hospitals; faith healers; the power of suggestion; and the implications for the future of Western society.

The Noonday Demon

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Vintage, UK

Describes how glasnost has improved the fortunes of formerly obscure, Soviet avant-garde artists, and changed Russian life in general

The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost

Arts & Photography

KNOPF

Andrew Solomon's first novel tells the story of Harry, an American concert pianist with an international career. Harry has lived happily with a man in London; but when his mother is diagnosed with cancer, his life begins to fall apart, and this pleasant domesticity is shattered.

A Stone Boat

Literature & Fiction

United States

Plume

Offers suggestions for selecting the right physician, taking advantage of the benefits and avoiding the pitfalls of the health-care system, getting the right insurance, and preserving patient rights

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

In a powerful mother-son story, a young gay pianist is stunned when his mother blames her cancer on his homosexuality, anguishes over her slow decline, and struggles to define himself and his relationship with his family. IP.

Faber&Faber

The award-winning author of A Stone Boat offers a deeply personal look at depression in which he draws on his own battle with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, researchers, doctors, and others to assess the vast complexities of the disease, its causes and symptoms, available therapies, and impact on society. 100,000 first printing.

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

Mental Health

Scribner

This extraordinarily moving, shocking and eye-opening work is set to become the classic text on the subject of depression, mental illness and the way we live now, for the literary market - the book that knocks even William Styron's Darkness Visible out of the water. Like Kay Jamison's An Unquiet Mind it digs deep and painfully into personal experience, but it also looks at the much wider picture - the historical, social, biological, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical aspects and implications of the disease - broadening the scope immeasurably. What is crucial is that Solomon has not only experienced what he is writing about firsthand, and describes the experience from the inside terrifyingly and brilliantly, but also that he has researched every aspect of depression, from the historical treatment and study of 'melancholy' as far back as the Greeks and Romans (who believed that cauliflower was good for depression), right through to the side effects of the pharmaceutical cocktails of the present day, case histories of people in & out of mental hospitals, faith healers, the power of suggestion, as well as the implications for the future of Western society. He also writes like a dream.

Chatto&Windus

Far From The Tree A Dozen Kinds of Love

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

From the National Book Award-winning author of the “brave…deeply humane…open-minded, critically informed, and poetic” (The New York Times) The Noonday Demon, comes a book about the consequences of extreme personal and cultural differences between parents and children. From the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression comes a monumental new work, a decade in the writing, about family. In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. Solomon’s startling proposition is that diversity is what unites us all. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender. While each of these characteristics is potentially isolating, the experience of difference within families is universal, as are the triumphs of love Solomon documents in every chapter. All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves. Drawing on forty thousand pages of interview transcripts with more than three hundred families, Solomon mines the eloquence of ordinary people facing extreme challenges. Whether considering prenatal screening for genetic disorders, cochlear implants for the deaf, or gender reassignment surgery for transgender people, Solomon narrates a universal struggle toward compassion. Many families grow closer through caring for a challenging child; most discover supportive communities of others similarly affected; some are inspired to become advocates and activists, celebrating the very conditions they once feared. Woven into their courageous and affirming stories is Solomon’s journey to accepting his own identity, which culminated in his midlife decision, influenced by this research, to become a parent. Elegantly reported by a spectacularly original thinker, Far from the Tree explores themes of generosity, acceptance, and tolerance—all rooted in the insight that love can transcend every prejudice. This crucial and revelatory book expands our definition of what it is to be human.

Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

Psychology & Counseling

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Getting The Best From Your Doctor: An Insider's Guide To The Health Care You Deserve

The Noonday Demon

The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost

A Stone Boat

Getting the Best from Your Doctor: An Insider's Guide to the Health Care You Deserve

A Stone Boat

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

The Noonday Demon

Far From The Tree A Dozen Kinds of Love

Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity