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Your health, your decisions, how to work with your doctor to become a knowledge-powered patient, Robert Alan McNutt, MD

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Your health, your decisions

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Robert Alan McNutt, MD

how to work with your doctor to become a knowledge-powered patient

Many authors have explored how doctors make decisions, and in nearly every example, the physician is at the center of discussion, with the patient as beneficiary of her or his decisions. Dr. Robert McNutt starts from a very different premise: challenging the physician-directed medical expertise model of making medical decisions, he presents practical information and formal exercises designed to give patients the tools and confidence to compare and consider their health care options. Your Health, Your Decisions moves from specific scenarios that commonly baffle patients to a systematic exploration of how to understand options and the tools available for assessing the risks and benefits of different treatments. By offering patients the tools they need to be full partners in their own health care, McNutt demystifies what can be a bewildering and terrifying process

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