商品簡介
In this guide for parents, Johnson, a pediatrician, explains how to communicate effectively with their child's doctors. He explains how doctors think and evaluate symptoms, use lab tests, and decide on a diagnosis and treatment. Discussion of differential diagnoses for common problems and types of medications used are included. Other chapters address dealing with difficult doctors and specialists, and medical training. The final chapter illustrates the process through five of Johnson's cases. There is no bibliography. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Christopher M. Johnson, MD, MA (Santa Fe, NM), is a pediatrician in private practice at Pediatric Intensive Care Associates, PC. Formerly, he was employed by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, as professor of pediatrics and director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. He is the author of Your Critically Ill Child: Life and Death Choices Parents Must Face, which was selected by Library Journal for its Best Consumer Health Books of 2007. For more about author Christopher Johnson, visit www.chrisjohnsonmd.com.
