What your doctor doesn’t know about you could kill you. That’s the premise behind a new medical self-help book by two professors at the University of New England.
In Medical Tests that Can Save Your Life, authors David Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology in the College of
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| David Sandmire, M.D. | Osteopathic Medicine, and David Sandmire, M.D., associate professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, describe 21 medical tests that your doctor is unlikely to order, unless you ask for them.
According to the authors, many fatal diseases and medical conditions, if detected early enough, can be cured or their effects dramatically reduced. In many cases, early testing, detection and treatment can mean the difference between life and death.
But for a variety of reasons (the medical mind set of only looking for active symptoms, health-care economics that eschew expensive tests, a less than well-informed patient), these potentially lifesaving tests aren’t ordered.
With this book, readers will learn how to determine if they’re at risk for life-threatening conditions, gauge their risk levels, learn which tests to request from their doctors, and how to make sure they get them.
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| David Johnson, Ph.D. | The highly readable, useful book’s first two sections describe how to evaluate your overall “personal risk profile” and how to make sure you get what you need from your doctor. The rest of the book describes 19 medical conditions (eg: breast cancer, coronary heart disease, HIV and AIDS, prostate cancer, type-2 diabetes) and provides an easy-to-use personal risk-level chart for each specific condition. The final section of the book describes the 21 medical tests that can detect deadly diseases when they’re in their earliest stages.
“Drs. Johnson and Sandmire have captured a lot of what I learned in 10 years of medical training in one focused text. This book tackles many of society’s medical issues and transforms them into one easily readable format,” writes Terence K. Gray, D.O., Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School.
(Press release issued Sept. 1, 2004)
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