Leslie D. Michelson. (2015). The Patient's Playbook: How to Save Your Life and the Lives of Those You Love. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Leslie D. Michelson. 2015. The Patient's Playbook: How to Save Your Life and the Lives of Those You Love. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Leslie D. Michelson, The Patient's Playbook: How to Save Your Life and the Lives of Those You Love. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015.

Leslie D. Michelson. The Patient's Playbook: How to Save Your Life and the Lives of Those You Love. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015.

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   • bioText: LESLIE D. MICHELSON is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Private Health Management, a unique patient-focused company dedicated to helping individuals and corporate clients obtain exceptional medical care. He is a highly sought-after expert who has spent the last thirty years guiding thousands of people through our complex health care system. Prior to founding Private Health Management in 2007, Michelson was the CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. He received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Beth.
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Too many Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical error—mistakes, complications, and misdiagnoses. And many more of us are not receiving the best care possible, even though it’s readily available and we’re entitled to it. The key is knowing how to access it.
The Patient’s Playbook is a call to action. It will change the way you manage your health and the health of your family, and it will show you how to choose the right doctor, coordinate the best care, and get to the No-Mistake Zone in medical decision making. Leslie D. Michelson has devoted his life’s work to helping people achieve superior medical outcomes at every stage of their lives. Michelson presents real-life stories that impart lessons and illuminate his easy-to-follow strategies for navigating complex situations and cases.  
The Patient’s Playbook is an essential guide to the most effective techniques for getting the best from a broken system: sourcing excellent physicians, selecting the right treatment protocols, researching with precision, and structuring the ideal support team. Along the way you will learn:
Why having the right primary care physician will change your life
Three things you can do right now to be better prepared when illness strikes
The ten must-ask questions at the end of a hospital stay
How to protect yourself from unnecessary and dangerous treatments
Ways to avoid the four most common mistakes in the first twenty-four hours of a medical emergency
This book will enable you to become a smarter health care consumer—and to replace anxiety with confidence.

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   • source: AARP Best Books of 2015
   • content: "Trust me--you need this guide because everyone at some point faces a health crisis. Michelson details, step by crucial step, how to navigate the terrifying world of doctors, hospitals, second opinions, drug trials, and insurance so you get lifesaving results."
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   • source: The Wall Street Journal
   • content: "Michelson implores patients to be intensely involved in their own care.... He urges patients...to 'bring their A-game' to the doctor's office...advocat[ing] smart care, not more care."
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   • source: Booklist (Starred Review)
   • content: "In this unique and useful book, [Michelson] maps out a plan to organize competent medical care when needed.... He provides advice and resources that help individuals become medically prepared, make sound health-care decisions, and more likely achieve favorable results.... An invaluable resource, The Patient's Playbook can effectively assist individuals in navigating the complex and often overwhelming world of illness."
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   • source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune
   • content: "Unlike most how-to books, this one is thick with advice and instructions....what's at stake: Your need to obtain the best possible diagnosis and treatment from an expensive but fractured netowrk of health care providers....The steps Michelson offers for negotiating the system mirror what his company does for patients--finding top experts and coordinating care....his insights about the importance of getting your caregivers to notice and talk to you is invaluable."
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     August 1, 2015
     

     Michelson, who has worked in the health management industry for many years in various roles, significantly as founder/chairman/CEO of Private Health Management, leads readers through a four-step process of "Intensive Case Management" (immersion, diagnosis, treatment, and coordination). Practical advice includes "Be Prepared," which involves collecting exhaustive medical history notes and forming a support team. Each chapter ends with a handy "Quick Guide" summarizing the action points and occasional advice from individual physicians, e.g., "How To Cold-Call a Physician." Practical information combines with (renamed) patient experiences to help the reader relate to the important themes. Providing information to patients and caregivers to empower them to take charge of their own health-care journey continues to be a highly relevant topic. This title succeeds in displaying a beneficial point of view and achievable goals in this crowded subject area. VERDICT In a fluid, informative, and educated manner, Michelson delivers an impassioned call to arms for patients and caregivers to be their best advocate, ready to organize, question, and ask for second opinions.--Elizabeth J. Eastwood, Los Alamos Cty. Lib. Syst., NM

     Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from August 1, 2015
     In an instant, illness can change everything. And, as Michelson astutely asserts, But when illness strikes, the journey to wellness is terribly confusing: a difficult language, contradictory signals, rapidly changing science, and no one to copilot. In this unique and useful book, he maps out a plan to organize competent medical care when needed. Weaving vignettes of actual patients into his presentation, he provides advice and resources that help individuals become medically prepared, make sound health-care decisions, and more likely achieve favorable results. Michelson recommends establishing a strong, active partnership with a good primary-care doctor, obtaining all your personal health records, gathering your family's medical history, and designating someone to be your health care quarterback (or advocate). He describes how to shield yourself from potentially dangerous overtreatment, identify the best specialists for specific diseases (beyond a simple Google search), and establish a strategy for possible future visits to the emergency room. Treatment fatigue, emotional vulnerability, and the specialist shuffle (the sequence of patients passed along from one type of specialty physician to another) are just a few of the intriguing and important concepts he discusses. An invaluable resource, The Patient's Playbook can effectively assist individuals in navigating the complex and often overwhelming world of illness.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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The Patient’s Playbook is a call to action. It will change the way you manage your health and the health of your family, and it will show you how to choose the right doctor, coordinate the best care, and get to the No-Mistake Zone in medical decision making. Leslie D. Michelson has devoted his life’s work to helping people achieve superior medical outcomes at every stage of their lives. Michelson presents real-life stories that impart lessons and illuminate his easy-to-follow strategies for navigating complex situations and cases.  
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