When Health Care Hurts

Buy this book . . . . . . if you suddenly find yourself dealing with a medical crisis and aren't sure how to get the best possible results from the health care system. . . . if you're planning to be in the hospital, have surgery, or take any medicine. . . . if you or a loved one had a bad experience with health care and wish you knew what to do differently to avoid similar issues in the future. You'll learn what questions to ask to avoid experiencing preventable problems. You'll learn easy-to-follow action steps that can help you get what you need from health care professionals including doctors and nurses. You'll learn about ten common assumptions that sound harmless but may prevent you from getting the quality of care you expect. Be part of the movement to shift the focus of health care from simply "delivering tests and treatments" to "enabling people to lead the lives they want." During her twenty years as an executive at Johnson & Johnson, Elizabeth L. Bewley won awards for creating and clearly communicating unique and significant insights into the complex and rapidly changing health care environment. Thanks to her visionary thinking, she's been recruited as an advisor to national health policy conferences and industry task forces. Her first book, Solving America's Health Care Problems, was completed in 1996, more than a decade before current health care issues began making headlines. Her second book, Killer Cure, was published in 2010. She writes a weekly newspaper column, "The Good Patient," for the Prescott, AZ, Daily Courier. Bewley earned an MBA from Columbia University and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Her work is informed both by extensive research and by her own experiences, including being patched up after a 44 mph bicycle accident.