Jim Sutton has been a practicing Family Practice Physician Assistant for 23 years. He graduated from the University of Washington Physician Assistant program in 1987 and also a residency in Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine in 1993. He has spent his career serving vulnerable underserved patients in Los Angeles, the Middle East, and now in urban Rochester New York for the Rochester General Health System. He is an Adjunct Clinical Professor for the Rochester Institute of Technology and he teaches Physician Assistant students in Family Medicine at Clinton Family Health Center in Rochester. His area of interest is health care policy and the development of programs that target healthcare disparities.
Sagar Nigwekar is a practicing Board Certified Internal Medicine physician at Rochester General Hospital. He graduated from the University of Mumbai, India in 1999 and subsequently completed his post-graduate training at the Rochester General Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program. He was Chief Medical Resident at Rochester General Hospital in 2005. Since then he has been teaching medical students and resident physicians at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He has recently been selected to work at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital's Nephrology Division (Harvard Medical School). He conducts translational and clinical research in the areas of hypertension and kidney disease.
Top 5 Questions to Ask Your Doctor
Important questions your doctor wants you to ask about your medical condition
by James Sutton, Sagar Nigwekar
Top 5 Questions to Ask Your Doctor
Important questions your doctor wants you to ask about your medical condition
by James Sutton, Sagar Nigwekar
Published May 29, 2010
172 Pages
Genre: MEDICAL / General
Book Details
A must read for every patient and doctor
Every minute of every day, in thousands of doctor office visits, there is information people should know about their medical condition that is not being discussed. People often forget key questions to ask about their condition or sometimes don’t even know the right questions at all. Top 5 Questions to Ask Your Doctor gives you those important questions you need to ask at each visit and the book is categorized by medical condition for easy reference. These questions have been submitted and reviewed by hundreds of primary care doctors, specialists, nurses, medical students, and patients. If these simple questions are asked at the time of your visit, you will walk away knowing more and being more confident about your health care.
“Active, informed patients and families can play a key role in protecting and improving the safety and quality of their own health care. To do this well, they need coaches and good ideas about how to get involved. This book is full of useful tips to help them speak up with confidence and become the empowered participants that they can and should be.”
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP
President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
“This gem of a book not only covers the specifics of what you should ask during your medical visit, but also addresses key critical issues and questions to address with regard to specific diseases. Read it and learn how to make the most out of the limited amount of time you have with your doctor.”
Edward B. Noffsinger, Ph.D.
Author, Running Group Visits in Your Practice
Healthcare Consultant and former Vice President of Shared Medical Appointments and Group-Based Disease Management at Harvard Vanguard
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