Doctor Patient Relationships: Relax! It's Only Your Doctor's Waiting Room, Not the ER: Or How to Get Along With and Understand Your Doctor

Healthcare and You
by Marvin Ackerman, MD
Doctor Patient Realtionships

"Relax! It’s Only Your Doctor’s Waiting Room, Not the ER: Or How to Get Along With and Understand Your Doctor"
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This book is an insightful but irreverent intrusion into the complexities of modern day medicine. Written by a physician who faithfully practiced his trade for forty years only to realize that he was rapidly becoming enslaved by unsolicited intervention which was robbing him of his free-thinking spirit.

The result is a multifaceted hybrid consisting of shades of humor embedded in simplified reviews and analyses of our complex medical literature. Readers are taken on an excursion into the twists, turns, contradictions, and frequently comical or unexpected conclusions inherent in a profession that is changing so rapidly that the road signs have become blurred.

Topics range from the serious to the ridiculous, from inspiring new approaches to treating cancer to the shenanigans of charlatans promising quick cures, and from new horizons of discovery to old tricks and new fabrications designed to scam the unwary. To assist his fellow travelers in ways to choose the best pathways, in spite of the blurred road signs, Dr. Ackerman concludes each chapter with his own professionally designed road maps.

Each individual is encouraged to utilize this information as a guide for reaching final destinations by choosing best personal routes to their decisions. Humor and innuendo abound, assisted by focused exaggeration in the form of relevant poems and cartoons spontaneously created by a multi-talented author who utilized these talents in the past as armamentarium for treating his patients.