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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
PRIMARY CARE:
A
Cleveland Clinic Guide for Partnering with Your Family Doctor
By Vance M. Brown, M.D.
(January 2006)
PRIMARY CARE: A Cleveland Clinic Guide for Partnering with
Your Family Doctor by Vance M. Brown, M.D. (Cleveland
Clinic Press; June 2006) is one of a series of new books
written by physicians from the world-renowned Cleveland
Clinic. PRIMARY CARE emphasizes that having a good
relationship with your primary care doctor is crucial in
today’s complicated medical world. It gives families what they
need to get the most out of their relationship with their
primary care doctor: substantive information from a source
that is trusted all over the world — The Cleveland Clinic —
and serves as a complete home reference for anyone.
Your primary care
physician’s office is your medical home. Familiar and
accessible, it offers the first level of care at which most
patients meet the health-care system. This involves screening,
preventive strategy, and treatment for acute
minor-to-moderately severe illnesses; the care of chronic
disease conditions; and the coordination of all health
problems into a comprehensive plan. A good primary care
provider is essentially your guide and interpreter to help you
wend your way through the very complex maze of the health-care
system.
The mission of the
Cleveland Clinic Press (CCP) is to increase health
literacy and dispel myths and misinformation about medicine,
health care, and treatment. CCP publishes nonfiction consumer
books and other media for the medical, health, nutrition, and
exercise markets, providing the most useful and authoritative
information vetted by the experts of The Cleveland Clinic.
The many topics
covered in PRIMARY CARE: A Cleveland Clinic Guide for
Partnering with Your Family Doctor include:
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An explanation
of primary care
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The importance
of advocacy
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The role of a
primary care physician
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The ideal
patient-doctor relationship
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How to choose a
primary care physician
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What you should
expect from your primary care provider
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Understanding
the doctor’s world
PRIMARY CARE: A
Cleveland Clinic Guide for Parenting with Your Family Doctor
is fully indexed and illustrated.
About the
Author
Dr. Vance Brown is Chairman of The Department of Family
Medicine at The Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Brown lives in
Cleveland, Ohio.
More About the
Cleveland Clinic Press
CCP’s books are for patients, families, parents of children
with health problems, and the children themselves. Their
authors include leading authorities from The Cleveland Clinic
as well as a diverse list of experts drawn from other medical
and health institutions whose research and treatment
breakthroughs have helped countless people. For more
information, visit the CCP web site at
http://clevelandclinicpress.org/
Also watch for new
Cleveland Clinic Guides on Arthritis, Sleep
Disorders, Infertility, Thyroid Disorders, Prostate Cancer,
Diabetes, Pain Management, Heart Attack, Liver Disorders,
and many others.
PRIMARY CARE: A
Cleveland Clinic Guide for Parenting with Your Family Doctor
By Vance M. Brown, M.D.
$14.95/trade paperback
Cleveland Clinic Press
June 2006
ISBN: 1596240105
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