Dr Chiaramonte's Afterword in the book 'Fixing American Healthcare'

Embracing the Winter Blues

Navigating the Healthcare System

Who's Afraid of the Empowered Patient? (published in JAMA)

Staying Healthy and Safe:

• Do not ignore these symptoms
• Using your thoughts to improve your mood
• Recognizing stroke - You only have 3 hours to save your brain
• Cell phones and cancer - A new reason to worry?
• The dirty dozen: The 12 fruits and veggies you should definitely buy Organic
• Fire Safety...
• Sun safety: Protect yourself...
• How to stay safe at the pool, lake or beach
• Baltimore's best healthcare gems
• Severe Nausea: One troubling cause
• Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death: Beyond statins and aspirin
• Sleep Apnea: When snoring is more than just annoying
• Nighttime Sniffles: Creepier than you think

Navigating the Healthcare System:

• Getting a second opinion
• Eight ways to help a friend who is ill
• Getting the most from your doctors

The State of Our Healthcare System:

• Hope for the healthcare system?
• Do U.S. doctors ration healthcare?
• Does the 15 minute doctor visit really work?
• Prescription drug mishaps cause a shocking number of deaths
• Doctors and patients - can the relationship be saved?
• What being sued does to a doctor
• Medical information -n tainted or pure?
• Chronic diseases: Rethinking our rusty magic bullets
• Is your nurse a doctor? how physician assistants and nurse practitioners are changing primary care
• Electronic medical records - A great idea gone wrong

Cancer Care:

• Screening for prostate cancer - Making sense of muddy waters
• A breast MRI helped Christina Applegate - Could it help you too?
• Helping a friend through cancer - Dos and Don'ts
• Malignant Glioma - Neither money nor power can protect you

Infections:

• Flu Facts
• West nile virus: Mosquitoes are more than just an annoyance
• A serious side effect of antibiotics - Could this happen to you?
• When food is dangerous: A primer on foodborne illness
• Lyme disease - Don't panic, just get informed

Senior Health:

• When the tables turn: What to do as your parents age
• Depression in older people - Common and often misdiagnosed

Children's Health:

• Top health tips for back to school children
• Sleep deprivation in children - Bratty or just tired?
• Gymnastics vs family dinners? Where should we draw the line?
• Of course babies feel pain
• Cholesterol - Should we be testing our children?
• Guns and kids. Safety rules
• Pool drains - A hazard you might not have considered
• Childhood obesity - What parents can do
• Measles: A disease of the past or a disease of the future?
• Lice: An elementary school plague
• Bike helmets - Just do it.

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