How to Be a Patient, Sana Goldberg
How to Be a Patient, Sana Goldberg
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How to Be a Patient
The Essential Guide to Navigating the World of Modern Medicine

Author: Sana Goldberg

Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon

Unabridged: 9 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper Wave

Published: 03/19/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

From registered nurse and public health advocate Sana Goldberg, RN, a timely, accessible, and comprehensive handbook to navigating common medical situations. From the routine to the unexpected, How to Be a Patient is your ultimate guide to better healthcare.
Did you know that patients have statistically better outcomes when their surgeon is female? That you can mark-up an informed consent sheet before you sign it, or get second opinions on CTs and MRIs? That there’s a blue book for healthcare procedures, or an algorithm to decide between ER, Urgent Care, and waiting-until-Monday?In How to Be a Patient, nurse and public health advocate Sana Goldberg walks readers through the complicated and uncertain medical landscape, illuminating a path to better care.Warm and disarmingly honest, Goldberg’s advice is as expert as it is accessible. In the face of an epidemic of brusque, impersonal care she empowers readers with the information and tools to come to good decisions with their providers and sidestep the challenging realities of modern medicine.With sections like When All is Well, When It’s An Emergency, When It’s Your Person, and When You Have to Stand Up to the Industry, along with appendices to help track family history, avoid pointless medical tests, and choose when and where to undergo a procedure, How to Be a Patient is an invaluable and essential guide for a new generation of patients.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Sana Goldberg

Sana Goldberg, RN, liaises between academia and clinical practice. She has worked with a diversity of patients across settings from the perspective of researcher, social worker, nurse, and provider. An outspoken public health advocate, she’s presented at World Congress, TEDx Harvard, The Society for Neuroscience, and OPHA, with work published in Neuropharmacology, The European Journal of Neuroscience, and forthcoming in the Atlantic. She is the recipient of the Diamond Alumni Award, a member of the International Honor Society of Nursing, and the founder of Nightingale, a movement of story, art, and activism for health equity. She practices in New Haven, CT, while pursuing graduate studies at Yale.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria

This book brought my confidence in my ability to navigate the medical world from a zero to a 75, out of 100 that is. It is clearly written and simple enough for a layperson unaccustomed to doctor/hospital visits to comprehend and follow. I’m grateful for this minimally biased, information-packed pra......more

Goodreads review by Christi

I had the opportunity to get a copy of this book from the publisher because the author is an alumnus of the school where I work. We invited Sana to do two book readings. I enjoyed this book for its ease of use. It's meant to be a guide and for the reader to skip around in it. I liked her practical a......more

Goodreads review by Hal

This book should be required reading for everyone that has or will be taking on the wild morass that is the healthcare system. Reading that line, that probably is all of us. Sana Goldberg RN has put together a guidance system to help us through in this book. Her vast knowledge as a practicing nurse......more