Maria Gibson

Find Your Way: Illness, Doctors, and Healthcare. A Doctor's Guide to Taking Charge of Your Health and Navigating Modern Healthcare. (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• Are my symptoms dangerous?
• What online health information is reliable?
• Should I try dietary supplements?
• How to:
• - find a good doctor who listens and a medical practice that fits?
• - effectively communicate with your medical team?
• -avoid errors and take advantage of medications and dietary supplements?
• -survive a hospital stay?
• -deal with uncertainty of clinical diagnosis and avoid overtreatment?
• -pivot through chronic illness and heal?

Find your way: illness, doctors and healthcare answers those questions and more.

There is no training on how to be in charge of your health, when and where to seek medical advice, or how to become doctors' partners. We learn this as we go through our or our loved one's struggles with illnesses and experiences with doctors and healthcare.

In her book, Dr. Gibson, a practicing physician, originally from Siberia, reveals her struggles of going through her own illness as a patient, experiencing the vulnerability and uncertainty of a life-changing diagnosis. Through her personal and patients' journeys, Gibson tells stories of recovery and healing and brings practical lessons on how to take charge of your health, become your clinician's partner and use healthcare services that fit your personal goals, culture, and budget.

Over three decades, Dr. Gibson's holistic approach, expertise in medical science and integrative medicine, has helped thousands of patients on two continents return to health. In her book Gibson collected suggestions and recommendations that she wishes her patients knew while looking for answers to medical questions, communicating with their doctors and medical teams, and making decisions about their health. Both entertaining and practical, Find your way: illnesses, doctors and healthcare skillfully combines story-telling with evidence-based information on health, well-being and prevention.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: FERVENT PRESS
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798987651506
• Artikelnr.: 67480801

Autorenporträt

Maria Gibson, MD, PhD is a Board-certified family physician in Phoenix, Arizona, a Certified Physician Executive and a Clinical Professor at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Phoenix. Dr. Gibson grew up in Siberia and earned her MD and PhD degrees at the Siberian State Medical University, where the science of Western medicine merges with Eastern medicine practices. Her research in Siberia was dedicated to the study of alternative and balneological treatments of acute and chronic pelvic pain. Upon moving to the United States in 1996, Dr. Gibson completed a family medicine residency at Duke University and a fellowship in integrative medicine at Andrew Weil Center of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. As faculty at the Siberian State Medical University, Medical University of South Carolina and Emory University, she trained and mentored hundreds of medical students, family medicine physicians and physician-executives. Over three decades, her holistic approach, expertise in medical science and integrative medicine knowledge have helped thousands of patients return to health. In her book, Dr. Gibson reveals her struggles of going through her own illness as a patient, experiencing the vulnerability and uncertainty of a life-changing diagnosis. Through her personal and patients' journeys, Dr. Gibson tells stories of recovery and healing and brings practical lessons on how to take charge of your health, become your clinician's partner and use healthcare services in accordance with your personal goals, culture, and budget.