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A Handbook for Patients Who Want to Change Health Care

A new report provides inspiration and guidance for activists who want to advance their aim of health care that recognizes and welcomes the participation of all players.

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Book Review: “Out of Her Mind”

The selections in this book can help validate people struggling with mental illness, and they show how the mental health industry still needs to become more patient centered.

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Book Review: A Symphony in the Brain

This book offers a history and overview of neurofeedback, a type of biofeedback that aims to help patients control their brain activity.

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Book Review: Depression: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed

This book uses the author's expertise as a clinical psychologist and that of other experts to pull together information about depression which many people want to know.

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Book Review: e-Patients Live Longer

This easily read Guide addresses the relationship and communication among the health care team (patients and their lay and professional caregivers), safety, information gathering, privacy, cost, and...

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Book Review: Critical Decisions: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right...

Better than any existing literature, this book highlights techniques and behaviors that clinicians must use to support the empowered patient, and suggests significant improvements to decision aids.

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Book Review: Far From the Tree

This book peeled back the personal, historical, cultural layers of caregiving in a manner that has forever shaken my perspective about best health.

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Book Review: The Creative Destruction of Medicine

The new paradigm for medicine that Eric Topol draws in this book could, if fully realized, deliver better health, faster and at lower cost, than at any time in human history.

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Book Review: Let Patients Help!

This book gives readers a basic toolbox to become engaged consumers of health care. Conversational and readable, it's a good starting point for those seeking to understand what impact engagement and...

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Book Review: Chronic Resilience

This is the first book I've read that highlights the strength gained when going through a traumatic event, and teaches the reader to apply it to living with a chronic illness.

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Book Review: A Cure for Asthma? What Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You — And Why

This book challenges the conventional wisdom about the causes and treatments of asthma by describing the treatment protocol the author has used successfully on some of his patients – namely a course of...

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Book Review: The Girl on the 6th Floor

Written by the father of an encephalitis survivor, this book shows participatory medicine at its best.

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Book Review: A Symphony in the Brain

This book offers a history and overview of neurofeedback, a type of biofeedback that aims to help patients control their brain activity.

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Book Review: Depression: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed

This book uses the author's expertise as a clinical psychologist and that of other experts to pull together information about depression which many people want to know.

View Article

Book Review: e-Patients Live Longer

This easily read Guide addresses the relationship and communication among the health care team (patients and their lay and professional caregivers), safety, information gathering, privacy, cost, and...

View Article


Book Review: Critical Decisions: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right...

Better than any existing literature, this book highlights techniques and behaviors that clinicians must use to support the empowered patient, and suggests significant improvements to decision aids.

View Article

Book Review: Far From the Tree

This book peeled back the personal, historical, cultural layers of caregiving in a manner that has forever shaken my perspective about best health.

View Article


Book Review: The Creative Destruction of Medicine

The new paradigm for medicine that Eric Topol draws in this book could, if fully realized, deliver better health, faster and at lower cost, than at any time in human history.

View Article

Book Review: Let Patients Help!

This book gives readers a basic toolbox to become engaged consumers of health care. Conversational and readable, it's a good starting point for those seeking to understand what impact engagement and...

View Article

Book Review: Chronic Resilience

This is the first book I've read that highlights the strength gained when going through a traumatic event, and teaches the reader to apply it to living with a chronic illness.

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