Doctors have a built-in advantage when it comes to getting extra-special medical care. Their knowledge and connections help them to get better faster-and avoid unnecessary risks. Now, distinguished The Today Show medical consultants and NBC News national health care reporters Drs. Kevin J. Soden and Christine Dumas provide information on:
- What tests a doctor would demand - How a doctor picks a doctor - What doctors know about hospitals - How doctors make decisions about medications, physical therapy, surgery, and more - Even doctors need a second opinion: where they go to get one - How doctors pick a specialist - How a doctor bounces back faster after surgery - What doctors know about the ER - Where a doctor gets the latest medical information-and readers can, too - What doctors know about preventing and treating the top three killers of men and women - What doctors know about reducing their risk of the most preventable cancers - What doctors know about living a longer and healthier life
