Take This Book to the Hospital With You: A Consumer Guide to Surviving Your Hospital Stay

Your money and your life are at risk every time you enter a hospital.The ultimate consumer's guide to surviving a hospital stay, Take This Book to the Hospital with You, gives the inside information most hospital administrators would prefer that you not know.How to avoid getting a hospital-acquired infection--one out of every ten people admitted get them!How to change your room, your doctor, or your nurseWhich hospital departments are most likely to commit malpracticeWhat rights you sign away, or think you do, on a hospital consent formHow to scrutinize your bill for errors--numerous studies have found that more than 90% of the bills reviewed had errors, mostly in favor of the hospitalA Prescription for Good Health CarePublished by America's largest and foremost consumer health advocacy organization, the nonprofit People's Medical Society, Take This Book to the Hospital with You is the savvy patient's most powerful defense against the medical minefield known as a hospital.