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Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices about Your Health Audiobook
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A top expert on decision-making explains why it’s so hard to make good choices—and what you and your doctor can do to make better ones.
In recent years, we have gained unprecedented control over choices about our health. But these choices are hard and often full of psychological traps. As a result, we’re liable to misuse medication, fall for pseudoscientific cure-alls, and undergo needless procedures.
In Your Life Depends on It, Talya Miron-Shatz explores the preventable ways we make bad choices about everything from nutrition to medication, from pregnancy to end-of-life care. She reveals how the medical system can set us up for success or failure and maps a model for better doctor-patient relationships.
Full of new insights and actionable guidance, this book is the definitive guide to making good choices when you can’t afford to make a bad one.
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“Suggests ways to foster a good doctor-patient relationship. Along the way, she digs into the factors behind patients’ medical decision-making, such as confirmation bias, and investigates how choices are presented to patients.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“Offers clear and simple guidance and solutions that can be implemented by the three relevant actors: patients, health-care providers, and the health-care systems.”
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“A work that is not only easy and exciting to read but full of insights. She includes tips for each of us as health consumers and decision makers as well as for leaders and policy makers…A must-read.”
— Joseph Kvedar, MD, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
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About Talya Miron-Shatz
Talya Miron-Shatz, PhD, is a leader in research at the intersection of medicine and behavioral economics. She is professor and founding director of the Center for Medical Decision Making at Ono Academic College in Israel, senior fellow at the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest in New York, and a visiting researcher at the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of over sixty academic papers on medical decision making. She is CEO of CureMyWay, an international health consulting firm whose clients include Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and Samsung.
About Coleen Marlo
Coleen Marlo is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator who has been nominated for an Audie Award twice, winning in 2011. She has been awarded three Listen-Up Awards from Publishers Weekly, an AudioFile Audiobook of the Year Award in 2011, and was named Audiobook Narrator of the Year for 2010 by Publishers Weekly. She is a member of the prestigious Actors Studio and taught acting for ten years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. Marlo is a proud founding member of Deyan Institute of Voice Artistry and Technology.