Introducing 7 Steps to Your Best Possible Healthcare by Dr. Ruthann Russo

Introducing 7 Steps to Your Best Possible Healthcare

By Dr. Ruthann Russo

When you need a new doctor, how do you find one that will provide a high quality of care? If you disagree with your doctor about a diagnosis or treatment, what do you do? When your children are older, will they have reliable information about their family's medical history? What is in your medical record and what does it mean? Why is any of this important?

Dr. Russo's new book will help you answer these questions, prepare for various healthcare situations-and more.

If you've experienced any kind of health challenges, you probably know the importance of these issues and, most likely, you've had some frustrations with navigating your way through the healthcare system. 7 Steps to Your Best Possible Healthcare can help you.

If you're in good health right now, you may think you don't need to worry about healthcare-but you do. At some point, most people need healthcare, and just like you need to create a will before you die, you need to get your healthcare plans in order before you're sick. 7 Steps to Your Best Possible Healthcare can help you, too

Whether you're healthy or ill, this guidebook will show you how to become a more proactive participant in the management of your healthcare. The book, which weaves together stories of healthcare challenges with lessons learned to help you deal with your own challenges, will:

Teach you to create your own healthcare values, vision, and mission statements
Familiarize you with the information in your medical records so you can read them, understand them, and keep your own records.
Recommend strategies for you to improve your communications with your doctors and other healthcare providers
Describe the quality tools that you can use to decide where you want to receive your healthcare
Discuss issues in healthcare ethics that could impact you and your care
Provide a roadmap to the healthcare system so that you will feel more in control of your healthcare and the decisions you make