Staying Alive
How to Improve Your Health and Your Healthcare
$37.77
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
6 February 2019
Summary
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In this committed and compassionate book, Phil Hammond - a doctor, journalist, campaigner and patient - argues for a bidet revolution in the NHS - from the bottom up, with patients leading the charge. What we can do for ourselves to live well often far outweighs what modern medicine and the NHS can do for us. And when we do need to use the NHS, getting involved, speaking up and sharing our expertise can improve not just our care, but the care of ot…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787477889 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787477886 |
| Author: | Dr Phil Hammond |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 6 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
Want to get the best from the NHS? How many strong, independent adults turn to shy, tongue-tied patients, and don’t ask questions for fear of seeming presumptuous. I did when my kids were ill - and I’m a doctor! Now Dr Phil Hammond has written a fabulous practical guide in his book Staying Alive - how to get the best from the NHS. Like me, he loves the NHS - but he knows we all need some help to navigate our way through it. - Dr Sarah Jarvis, GP, writer and doctor for The One Show and
If you use the NHS (i.e. all of you), you MUST read this book. If you’re a doctor you NEED to read this book. If you’re an NHS manager this book is VITAL. - Dr Chris Steele, GP and doctor for ITV’s This MorningThis is a fantastic book about how to live well. Phil Hammond’s goes beyond the usual tips about diet and exercise - we hear about the power of positive thinking, as well as how to get the best out of the health service. And this book is packed with real stories - from people who have become survival experts through their own experiences. Their stories are heartwarming, enlightening and useful. Phil Hammond has a knack of being brutally honest and very funny at the same time. This is quite simply the most useful book about health and the health service that I’ve ever read. - Alice RobertsAbout The Author
Dr Phil Hammond
Phil Hammond is an NHS doctor, journalist, broadcaster, and comedian. He has worked in general practice for over twenty years, as well as in sexual health. Currently, he works in a specialist NHS team for young people with chronic fatigue syndrome/ME.
Phil presented five series of Trust Me, I’m a Doctor on BBC2, encouraging patients to be more involved, assertive, and questioning. He has also been a presenter for BBC Radio Bristol since 2007. He has been Private Eye’s medical correspondent since 1992 and appears regularly on national radio and television advocating for patient power and a more honest and transparent NHS. This is his fifth book.
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