Pat's Book Blog on Health Literacy
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Here is what we will be discussing in each of the four weeks:
Friday February 4, 2022
Healthcare Choices: 5 Steps to Getting the Medical Care You Want and Need, by Archelle Georgiou, MD, 2017.
This blog focuses on Dr. Georgiou’s CARES model which translates to:understand your condition, know your Alternatives, Respect your preferences, Evaluate your options, and Start taking action. Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Dr. Georgiou emphasizes that health care consumers cannot be passive bystanders in their own care. Pat will outline the specific implementation methods of the CARES model.
Friday February 11, 2022
Making Sense of Medicine: Bridging the Gap Between Doctor Guidelines & Patient Preferences, by Zackary Berger, MD, 2016.
How reliable are the guidelines that might form the basis of doctors’ advice? Is it wrong to base our approach to healthcare on our preferences? John Hopkins Hospital's Dr. Berger, investigates, writes, and teaches how individual situations complicate: Evidence Based Medicine, Shared Decision Making, and Patient-Centered Care. Dr Berger developed a novel course in Hopkins’ Masters of Bioethics program to address these issues. Pat's Week 2 Blog will focus on these complications.
Here is what we will be discussing in each of the four weeks:
Friday February 4, 2022
Healthcare Choices: 5 Steps to Getting the Medical Care You Want and Need, by Archelle Georgiou, MD, 2017.
This blog focuses on Dr. Georgiou’s CARES model which translates to:understand your condition, know your Alternatives, Respect your preferences, Evaluate your options, and Start taking action. Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Dr. Georgiou emphasizes that health care consumers cannot be passive bystanders in their own care. Pat will outline the specific implementation methods of the CARES model.
Friday February 11, 2022
Making Sense of Medicine: Bridging the Gap Between Doctor Guidelines & Patient Preferences, by Zackary Berger, MD, 2016.
How reliable are the guidelines that might form the basis of doctors’ advice? Is it wrong to base our approach to healthcare on our preferences? John Hopkins Hospital's Dr. Berger, investigates, writes, and teaches how individual situations complicate: Evidence Based Medicine, Shared Decision Making, and Patient-Centered Care. Dr Berger developed a novel course in Hopkins’ Masters of Bioethics program to address these issues. Pat's Week 2 Blog will focus on these complications.
Friday, February 18, 2022
Talking to Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Communication in the Exam Room and Beyond, by Zackary Berger, MD, 2015.
We’ll focus on how patients need to take control of their healthcare visit and to set their agenda. Specifically, how to: Talk to your doctor—and get your doctor to talk to you; Remake the relationship with your doctor on the basis of good communication; Make sure your visit with the doctor is productive and meets your needs; Help yourself and others avoid over-testing and over-treatment. As a primary care physician, clinical epidemiologist, and bioethicist, Dr. Berger suggests if we can talk to our doctors about our concerns, we might achieve the reassurance that we are missing.
Friday, February 25, 2022
Your Life Depends On It: What You Can Do To Make Better Choices About Your Health by Talya Miron-Shatz, PhD, 2021.
Our last book blog will focus on the factors behind patients’ medical decision-making, such as confirmation bias, and Miron-Shatz’s investigations into: How choices are presented to patients; Systems of thinking we all us; The problems with percentages and probabilities; Patient risks and rights; and Health literacy and seniors. Miron-Shatz makes a convincing case for patient self-advocacy.
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