Tag Archive for: In Your Own Hands
Video: Second Opinions
Before any high-risk procedure or if you are not getting better, it’s important to get a second opinion from a specialist at a different institution, or from a clinician in a different specialty. Your PCP will have ideas on what specialists…
Video: Bringing someone with you to medical appointments
Bring an advocate with you to medical appointments if you need support or help with comprehension in the conversation with your doctor. Also, that person can advocate for you and ask questions that you may not think to ask. An advocate can also…
Video: Having an Advocate with You
Bring someone with you when going for medical appointments that may include receiving a dire diagnosis.
Video: How to get all the time you need in medical office visits
How to prepare for medical office visits with list of pertinent questions and succinct descriptions of symptoms.
Video: Maintain Your Own Medical Records
It’s important to keep a record of questions and any topics you want to discuss with your doctor. In this way, you can help your doctors give you better medical care.
Video: Cultivate a trusting partnership with your doctor
In this clip, it is recommended that as patients, we cultivate a trusting partnership with our doctors.
Video: Getting All the Time You Need at Medical Appointments
This brief video is the first of a series that describes how to get all the time you need with your doctors. The first step is to prepare for every appointment by creating a list of all your questions.
Video: Healthy Relationships and Social Support Correlate with Better Health (part sixteen of series)
When epidemiologists controlled for all possible confounding variables, they found that healthy social connections correlated more strongly than any other factor with optimal health. People with the most friends had much better health than people…
Video: Accept the diagnosis but not the prognosis (part fifteen of series)
Learn how to experience bad news and difficult situations as challenges rather than as defeats. Patients diagnosed with metastatic cancers who viewed the diagnosis as a challenge and as an opportunity to become a fighter had better recovery…