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Your Life Depends on It
- Author
- Talya Miron-Shatz
- Narrator
- Coleen Marlo
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 March 2022
- Run Time
- 8 hours 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A top expert on decision-making explains why it’s so hard to make good choices—and what you and your doctor can do to make better ones.
In recent years, we have gained unprecedented control over choices about our health. But these choices are hard and often full of psychological traps. As a result, we’re liable to misuse medication, fall for pseudoscientific cure-alls, and undergo needless procedures.
In Your Life Depends on It, Talya Miron-Shatz explores the preventable ways we make bad choices about everything from nutrition to medication, from pregnancy to end-of-life care. She reveals how the medical system can set us up for success or failure and maps a model for better doctor-patient relationships.
Full of new insights and actionable guidance, this book is the definitive guide to making good choices when you can’t afford to make a bad one.
Critics Review
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“Offers clear and simple guidance and solutions that can be implemented by the three relevant actors: patients, health-care providers, and the health-care systems.”
British Medical Journal
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“Suggests ways to foster a good doctor-patient relationship. Along the way, she digs into the factors behind patients’ medical decision-making, such as confirmation bias, and investigates how choices are presented to patients.”
Publishers Weekly
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“A work that is not only easy and exciting to read but full of insights. She includes tips for each of us as health consumers and decision makers as well as for leaders and policy makers…A must-read.”
Joseph Kvedar, MD, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
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Details
- Author
- Talya Miron-Shatz
- Narrator
- Coleen Marlo
- Duration
- 8 hours 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 March 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200882304
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Popular medicine and health, Health systems and services, Education, Decision theory: general, Health systems and services
Synopsis
A top expert on decision-making explains why it’s so hard to make good choices—and what you and your doctor can do to make better ones.In recent years, we have gained unprecedented control over choices about our health. But these choices are hard and often full of psychological traps. As a result, we’re liable to misuse medication, fall for pseudoscientific cure-alls, and undergo needless procedures.In Your Life Depends on It, Talya Miron-Shatz explores the preventable ways we make bad choices about everything from nutrition to medication, from pregnancy to end-of-life care. She reveals how the medical system can set us up for success or failure and maps a model for better doctor-patient relationships.Full of new insights and actionable guidance, this book is the definitive guide to making good choices when you can’t afford to make a bad one.
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