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Surviving Healthcare: 5 STEPS to Cutting Through the BS, Getting the Treatment You Need, and Saving Your Life

Surviving Healthcare: 5 STEPS to Cutting Through the BS, Getting the Treatment You Need, and Saving Your Life

          
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Published originally under the title 5 S.T.E.P.S. to Being Your Own Patient Advocate, this second edition sports a new title, a new cover, and a new focus. In an increasingly complex U.S. healthcare system, patients suffering from chronic illness are not always well served. Surviving Healthcare: 5 STEPS to Cutting Through the BS, Getting the Treatment You Need, and Saving Your Life does exactly what the title promises. Dr. Cristy Kessler shares her five-step protocol for navigating a difficult medical journey, providing strategies that patients and their caregivers can easily put into practice as they strive with their doctors for a positive outcome. The author describes each step, illustrating them from her own experience in surviving three deadly autoimmune diseases. At a time when the medical community had given up on her, Kessler doubled down and took charge of her healthcare needs. Working with a powerful team of doctors, she cut through the BS that is oh-so-familiar to patients with chronic illnesses, and not only found her diagnoses, she identified the most effective treatment, and ultimately got that treatment-a treatment that saved her life. The five steps are really very simple: Sensibility (knowing what your body is telling you and successfully communicating that to doctors), Teamwork (working proactively with your doctors and your network of supportive family and friends), Education (searching and researching issues related to your illnesses and helping your busy doctors find the treatment you need), Perseverance and Patience (knowing when to push for answers from the medical community and knowing when to slow down and give your doctors time to work with you), and, finally, Sustainability (maintaining a positive attitude, taking care of your physical and spiritual needs both before and after treatment). The life preserver image on the cover is more than a metaphor; the five steps described in this book offer patients with chronic illnesses and their loved ones real hope for the future. Through this book, Kessler tosses you a lifeline, that is, a series of strategies designed to keep you afloat in what might be a sea of despair and to bring you safely to the shore.
About the Author: Dr. Cristy Kessler is a true stem cell pioneer and CEO of Cristy Kessler Consulting, a firm designed to assist everyday patients and caregivers with easy access to research related to chronic illness. Her expertise includes implementing proven research techniques to find current breakthroughs in all chronic diseases, summarizing available treatment options, and providing easy to understand data so patient/caregiver can make the best, unbiased decisions related to medical care. Cristy focuses on saving you time spent on the computer, making calls, and reading medical textbooks by doing the background work necessary to understand chronic illness. Cristy has been motivating audiences of all ages with her message of determination, survival, faith, and hope. Cristy has a natural ability for speaking to large groups and a style of speaking that helps them feel like they're sitting in her living room. Her myriad of experiences and her years of being recognized as a master teacher gives Cristy the upper hand in providing first class, motivating talks and workshops related to communication, medication management, partnerships for patients, patient and family involvement, patient experience, and personalized medicine. In fact, her first book addresses each of these areas in 5 steps. Cristy has also created a two-way communication T-chart system to revolutionize doctor/patient communication for chronic conditions. When Cristy couldn't get the FDA to approve a proactive, lifesaving stem cell transplant, let alone coverage from any health insurance company to survive complications due to three autoimmune diseases, she used proven research techniques and her own experiences as a patient (who has seen at least a hundred different doctors in a 16 year period) to find a way to live. By using research-based teaching practices from her 20+ career as teacher/researcher, Cristy created 5 steps to survive healthcare and is alive today because of her system. You can visit cristykessler.com for more information on surviving healthcare.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780989998741
  • Publisher: Buckskin Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Buckskin Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 258
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: 5 STEPS to Cutting Through the BS, Getting the Treatment You Need, and Saving Your Life
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0989998746
  • Publisher Date: 07 Mar 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 349 gr


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