I. EVERYDAY MEDICAL AND HEALTH CONCERNS. Taking control of your health care, or, The wisdom of 2nd and 3rd opinions -- Insurance companies: organized crime or just bad policies -- An apple a day: and other things to protect your health when visiting the doctor's office -- Does your kid really need that shot? Protecting your children in the system -- The pharmacy and prescription drugs, or, Beware of the spoonful of sugar that helps the "medicine" go down -- Visiting the emergency room without feeling like a bit-player on a TV drama -- II> MAJOR DISEASES AND LONG-TERM ISSUES. A real heart-to-heart about cardiac care -- how to handle the big C from A to Z: coping with cancer treatment -- Baby boom or bust: how to stroll through maternity, neonatal, and fertility issues -- You give me fever: infection and communicable diseases -- How to maintain some sanity in the mental health system -- III. THE HOSPITAL AND MAJOR PROCEDURES. Hospital outpatient visits and how to make sure you actually get out! Hospital stays: as dangerous as a war zone? -- Medical tests and how to avoid becoming a lab rat! -- Major surgeries, or, How to make sure you still have a leg to stand on afterward! -- IV. THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE. A cure for the medical system.
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