Taking Charge of Your Own Health

The realities of American health care, 2009: Less personal medical attention due to cost-cutting and regulationA 40 percent national misdiagnosis rate, per recent surveysA critical need for people to take responsibility for their own care Targeting these issues, author Lisa Hall—whose debilitating condition took nearly ten years to properly diagnose—offers a wide variety of practical resources to empower patients. Hall’s experience is buttressed by the expertise of internal-medicine doctor Ronal