How to Save Your Own Life: The Eight Steps Only You Can Take to Manage and Control Your Health Care

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Trusting Yourself as the Real Expert About Your Health
The itching began in the middle of a humid summer night. Carol Watkins bolted upright in bed, flicked on the light, and checked for mosquito bites. She had spent the evening on the deck of her condo, sipping a margarita and talking nonstop

Listen to Your Body
First, however, you need to give yourself permission to home in on how you feel and get the message. Aches and pains, bleeding you can't explain, the sense that nothing tastes good anymore, tossing and turning all night - whatever doesn't seem quite right

Symptoms That Should Send You Straight To the Doctor
Amen. Here's a list of eighteen symptoms that should send you straight to the doctor, plus a capsule look at what the best- and worst-case scenarios might be. Remember, there are often plenty of other possibilities, and other symptoms

MARIE SAVARD, M.D., is an internationally known internist, women's health expert, and patients' rights champion. She is the creator of The Savard Health Record. Dr. Savard is also a medical writer and seminar provider who has lectured throughout the world on the principle of taking charge. She serves as medical director of the Cabrini Nursing Home. Her past highlights include: Director of the Center for Women's Health and associate professor at the Medical College of Pennsylvania/Hahnemann University; World Health Organization's technical advisor to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing); Women's Day magazine “Your Health” columnist; Philadelphia Magazine “Top Doctor” since the 1980s and a host of the popular radio show Medical Frontiers.

Sondra Forsyth is a 1999 recipient of a National Magazine Award for an article on colon cancer, as well as the winner of an award from the American Digestive Health Foundation. Ms. Forsyth has served as executive editor of Ladies' Home Journal, and is the author or co-author of seven books. She has written extensively about health and medicine as well as other topics for the major magazines.

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