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Ronald Hoffman trusted book,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], How To Talk With Your Doctor, has been recently updated and is now out in paperback!
Now more than ever patients are taking control of their own health care, leaving many conventional physicians unsure about their role as dispensers of medical knowledge. More waiting rooms are now filled with highly informed medical consumers seeking to partner with their doctors. They want to explore all promising treatiments, both mainstream and alternative,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and connect emotionally.
To physicians, these patients seem needy and demanding. To patients, though, such physicans come off as distant and stodgy, even arrogant. Many walk away entirely from mainstream medicine seeking a better partnership or they neglect to mention the alternative treatments they using for fear of disapproval. Less assertive patients simply clamup,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], put off by doctors increasingly brusque bedside manner and shorthand use of "medicalese." The unfortunate result in each case is the same: miscommunication and missed opportunities. Patients fail to receive the best care available to them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and doctorpatient relationships fall far short of the caring and mutually satisfying exchanges they should be.
"How to Talk with Your Doctor" is a book for patients and doctors alike. It arms patients with the tools and knowledge they need to communicate better with physicians about using the best hightech and alternative treatments while also helping doctors balance their skepticism of complementary and alternative approaches with openmindedness,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Ronald L. Hoffman received his medical degrees from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He subsequently attended the TriState School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and optained New York State certification to perform acupuncture. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and is a certified nutrition specialist.
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