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1. Letter to patients: on becoming the 'good' patient and finding the 'right' doctor Leonard Groopman 2. Becoming an active member of your healthcare team William Norcross 3. Information that will help you with advance planning for your health care Mark Wicclair 4. What do you do now? Responding to medical emergencies Kenneth V. Iserson 5. What you need to know about medical errors Erica Friedman and Rosamond Rhodes 6. Being informed when you give consent to medical care Ben Rich 7. Beware of scorecards Rosamond Rhodes and James Strain 8. Transplantation 101: negotiating the system Aaron Spital and Steven Smith 9. When the illness is psychiatric Leonard Groopman 10. On the horizon: genetic testing Robyn Shapiro 11. To be or not to be - a research subject? Eric Meslin and Peter Schwartz 12. Information that will help you make health care decisions for adult family members Mark Wicclair 13. Caring for individuals with Alzheimer's Robyn Shapiro 14. When the patient is a child Timothy Yeh 15. Care of elders Claudia Landau and Guy Micco 16. Being and thinking Hina Singh, Claudia Jacova, Paul Ford, and Judy Illes 17. Your guide to pain management Ben Rich 18. The hardest decisions: when treatment stops working Timothy Quill and Mindy Shah 19. What you need to know about disasters Griffin Trotter 20. Making the internet work for you: researching your health questions Bette Anton.
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