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Finding Strength in Stressful Times
Making Decisions
in the Dark
Creating a
Listening Space
Getting the
Full Picture
Staying Safe
Through Chaos
Research, Organize
Connect, and Kindle
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Survive and Conquer:
Your Guide When Illness Strikes
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A must read! This book is everything you need to get started when coping with serious illness that you or your loved one is facing. With empathy, humor, optimism, and a lot of practical advice, Dr. Ezon pulls back the curtain to share with patients and caregivers how the medical system actually works. This guide will show you how you can take steps to get the “VIP service” you deserve, achieve the best outcome possible, and care for yourself while caring for others.
Chapter 1 - Holy Sh*t! You Just Found Out. Here’s What You Need to Do First
Chapter 2 - Silly Putty Acrobat. Balancing Spousal Needs, Family Needs, and Your Needs, Even When You are Stretched Thin
Chapter 3 - Finding Your Voice. Learning How to Ask Your Doctors Questions in a Way that Gets You the Answers You Need
Chapter 4 - Does Size Matter? Finding the Right Medical Team for You.
Chapter 5 - Inpatient Incarceration. Coordinating Care, and Maintaining Sanity, While Admitted to a Hospital
Chapter 6 - First Do No Harm! (Alternate title: “Doctor, Would You Kindly Retrieve Your Watch You Left In My Belly?”). How Hospitals Keep You Safe and How You can Speak Up if You Feel Unsafe
Chapter 7 - Call 911, I’m Stuck in the Emergency Room. Twenty-one Ways to Improve Your Emergency Room Experience
Chapter 8 - Working in the Blind. Making Decisions by Weighing the Risks, Benefits, and Unknowns
Chapter 9 - A Focus on Hocus Pocus. Learning Which Alternative Therapies will Work and Which Are Dangerous
Chapter 10 - Does Anyone Here Speak English?? How to Evaluate the Medical Literature Like a Pro
Chapter 11 - Money, Money, Money, Money, Money. Financing Medical Crisis, Fighting with Insurance Companies, Negotiating with Hospitals, and Managing Medical Debt
Chapter 12 - When Life is not the Ultimate Goal. Reassigning Priorities in the Face of Impending Death to Ensure the Best Outcome Possible
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Your World
Research, Organize, Connect, and Kindle Conversations so You Can Be the Power Broker Your Doctor Needs and Respects
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Learn to how to do your own research in a way that actually helps your doctor.
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Learn to avoid false hopes in the media and false promises by those that want to harm you.
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Learn how to tap into the community of others coping with a problem like yours.
How to organize a medical journal, how to conduct a medical literature review, how to interpret medical reports in the media, how to discuss new ideas with your doctor, and how to find others in a similar position than you.
Staying Safe
Through Chaos
Learn How to Stay Safe
and Respond to Mistakes
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Learn to what to look for to check if you should feel safe or not.
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Learn how to the Knowledge Gap could harm you and how you can help your team prevent this.
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Learn how to identify dangerous bias and help your doctor see you as you truly are.
Signs of a safe environment, how hospitals maintain safety, bias and sources of medical error, giving reminders, when to escalate care, and responding to medical errors.
Getting the
Full Picture
Engage Your Providers So You Consider All the Options and Know What to Expect
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Learn to the simple phrase you can use to get the doctor to tell you exactly what to expect.
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Learn the SCAN technique to discover what may go wrong and how to respond.
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Learn what how to figure out if your doc truly believes what he's telling you.
Building an expectations map, understanding goals of studies and tests, engaging in "what ifs" and "then whats", using deliberate pauses, and setting financial expectations.
Creating a
Listening Space
How to Help Your Doctor
See You and Your Needs Fully
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Learn to the exact way to tell your story so that your doctor understands quickly.
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Learn your four critical roles you play in teaching the doctor: Continuity, Truth, Values, and Goals.
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Learn exactly what to say when you need to speak up but don't feel confident.
Giving a history clearly in a way that will be well received, expressing concerns to get attention & balance assertiveness with respect, and addressing concerns that a provider may be biased or isn't hearing what you are trying to communicate.
Making Decisions
in the Dark
How to Make the Right Choice
When You Don't Have All the Facts
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Learn to check your gut to make sure your decision are in line with your wishes.
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Learn to do the math and weigh the risks and benefits even if you can't be certain.
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Learn to ask the right questions so you can know you did everything right no matter the outcome.
Understanding why decision making is difficult, instilling confidence to ask questions, decision theory, practical questions to ask, and using gut checks to verify if the decision is correct.
Finding Strength
in Stressful Times
You can Learn to Push Forward
and Find Peace of Mind
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Learn to build resiliency by balancing optimism and a realistic attitude.
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Learn to be a CEO instead of a servant by delegating tasks effectively.
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Learn how to find strength and peace even when when things are out of your control.
Understanding the biopsychosocial model of medicine, giving permission to feel, creating priorities and expectations of self and others, building good habits, and building resiliency through reframing.
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