Informed Patient

<p><b>Even the most capable individuals are challenged when confronted with the complexity of the modern hospital experience.</b> <i>The Informed Patient</i> is a guide and a workbook divided into topical focused sections with step-by-step instructions insights and tips to illustrate what patients and their families can expect during a hospital stay. Anyone who will experience a hospital stay--or friends or family who may be in charge of a patient's care--will find all the help and advice they could need in the detailed sections that cover every aspect of what they can expect.</p><p>Karen A. Friedman MD and Sara L. Merwin MPH offer hands-on advice about how patients health care providers and medical staff can work together to achieve good outcomes. Through anecdotes tips sidebars and clinical scenario vignettes <i>The Informed Patient</i> presents ways to enhance and optimize a hospital stay from practical advice on obtaining the best care to dealing with the emotional experience of being in the hospital.</p>