Title: Patient power : getting the best from your health care
Abstract: This text aims to help everyone to make the best possible use of their health services. Taking a patients perspective, it guides the individual through the maze of health services, step-by-step, from how to register with a GP, how to understand what tests are being done, understanding medical jargon, to how to ask a top specialist about a course of treatment. It aims to put the health care user in the driving seat to make sure they get the best care available. It covers hospitals as well as the whole of health care, from care in the home to complementary medicine and the private sector.
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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