Inside the Book
From the Back Cover
Patient Power® founder and cancer survivor Andrew Schorr is the ultimate health information insider. In The Web-Savvy Patient, he shares his professional insight, his personal experience and true stories of powerful patients to shed light on how the Internet, when used wisely, can help save a person’s life.
This book will show you how to use the best of the Web to find answers to your most pressing questions, strengthen your resolve and make you an active member of your health care team.
- Define your specific condition
- Find expert physicians and the best hospitals
- Connect with a community of patients
- Manage the assistance of family and friends
- Distinguish promotional from educational content
- Learn how to wade through search engine results
- Organize your findings so that doctors will listen
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Insider's Tip:
Learn three critical tips from the book. Watch the replay of Andrew's appearance on KOMO News in Seattle.
Watch NowRemember that statistics reflect large generalities. They are only helpful when they apply to your specific situation. You are a patient, not a statistic.
Think back to when you were a full-time student and try to recall what researching techniques worked best for you then. You can modify those same approaches and apply them to your current quest.
Seeking a specialist doesn’t mean you’re abandoning your local doctor. It means you’re adding to your health care team, which can also enhance your local doctor’s knowledge.
Using the Web as a communication medium allows you to distribute your news to a broad audience while establishing a slight privacy buffer zone around you.