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Lädt ... Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statisticsvon Steven Woloshin M.D.M.S.
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 142 pages indexed. This a book worth buying. Clearly written using simple math. "The goal of this book is to help understand health information by teaching you how to understand the medical statistics on which the medical claims are based. by learning to understand the numbers and knowing what to ask you will be able to see through the hype and find the credible information if there is any. " The book does this job very well. It can be used by anyone who has ever been sick and needed to make a choice between drugs or needed to decide if a course treatment would be useful. It could also be used by math teachers and science teachers to show how the use math can influence life and death decision making. Buy this book . Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Every day we are bombarded by television ads, public service announcements, and media reports warning of dire risks to our health and offering solutions to help us lower those risks. But many of these messages are incomplete, misleading, or exaggerated, leaving the average person misinformed and confused. Know Your Chances is a lively, accessible, and carefully researched book that can help consumers sort through this daily barrage by teaching them how to interpret the numbers behind the messages. In clear and simple steps, the authors--all of them staff physicians at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont--take the mystery out of medical statistics. By learning to understand the medical statistics and knowing what questions to ask, readers will be able to see through the hype and find out what--if any--credible information remains. The book's easy-to-understand charts will help ordinary people put their health concerns into perspective.This short, reader-friendly volume will foster communication between patients and doctors and provide the basic critical-thinking skills necessary for navigating today's confusing health landscape. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The simplicity and repetitiveness of the text are indicative of the authors' sincere desire to change our behavior when faced with a medical issue by arming us with the tools to deflate the claims we hear so much about.
We can all help lower the cost of healthcare by not being duped into unnecessary screenings and treatments. My favorite sentence: "Unfortunately, very few medical interventions reduce the chance of dying from all causes combined."