Scary Diagnosis: What You Need to Know to Get the Best Health Care

Scary Diagnosis: What You Need to Know to Get the Best Health Care

Rogoff, Edward G.

Easton Studio Press

03/2025

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9781632261519

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: The First Shock, Then Waiting for Answers

When you receive a scary diagnosis, you need to know how to receive it,

hear it, process it, and rely on others to provide prospective.

Chapter 2: Life or Death

Everyone eventually dies, and some diagnoses are death sentences. But for

almost every diagnosis there is a reason for more optimism than pessimism.

Chapter 3: Vulnerability Squared

Being sick makes you feel vulnerable, fearful, and powerless.

Chapter 4: Sick Children

As vulnerable as you are as an adult, children are far more defenseless.

Chapter 5: Building Your Team

When you receive a scary diagnoses, you naturally tend to become depressed

and isolate yourself from the world.

Chapter 6: You Must Never Lose Your Dignity

At its worst, medical treatment can feel like torture, creating unimaginable

pain that can reduce you to feeling like a supplicant begging for

relief.

Chapter 7: Distrust and Suspicion

Skepticism is good; paranoia is bad. But you are likely somewhere on this

continuum.

Chapter 8: Selecting and Managing Your Doctor

How you can find and select the right doctor.

Chapter 9: Faith, Hope, and the Three Stooges

You need to focus on your attitude and take concrete steps to keep your

mood positive.

Chapter 10: To Share or Not to Share

It may be painful to share, but it can also bring you relief.

Chapter 11: Managing the Hospital Experience

Which hospital you should select to receive the best care?

Chapter 12: Coping with Big, Bad Bureaucracies

How the bureaucracies of insurance companies, hospitals, medical practices,

and government programs can crush your spirit and damage your

chances of successful treatment.

Chapter 13: Confront Your Disease by Being More Than Just a Patient

Being engaged in your work, family, and interests is what makes you who

you are and you shouldn't lose that to your scary diagnosis.

Chapter 14: With Gratitude, Optimism Is Sustainable

You must strive to find gratitude and acknowledge the strength you found

when coping with your scary diagnosis.

Suggested Reading

Index
self help; hemophilia; caregivers; patients; therapists; rehabilitation; inspiring; creative thinking; hospital; heroic; condition; self care; nurse; empowering; gratitude; willpower; specialist; wellness; cancer; medication; medical insurance; mindset; caretakers; courageous; health care; illness; coping; medical system; pain management; change management; physician; kidney disease; wellbeing; brave; care workers; parkinson's; health insurance; insightful; chronic; motivational; healing; healthcare; recovery; doctor; optimistic; mental health; life skills; therapy; rehab; disease; cardiovascular