Need solutions for the medication, medical appliances and/or medical travel that you can't afford? READ EMPOWER Yourself.
A Health Information Management professional, I survived a life-threatening emergency with information that only a person of my professional experience would know. And I’m sharing it!
B'SD 13 Av, 5775 As if headlines weren't scary enough, yesterday's edition ofMedPage Today looked at a serious issue: When it comes to health care spending, "We must face the fact that we largely have been asking the wrong questions for many years," says Stuart Guterman. Wedges shmedges. You need help to lower your medical bills now. Ask your medical team and pharmacist for solutions. They tend to exist (too far and too few, sad to say) or to be possible, but only for people who seek them out. Need more cost-cutting information? Look for relief in the Global Resources section of the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.
Fill your question sheets with necessary answers.
Smart people are shoring up their defenses to protect their health.
One way they do it is by reading
The E-book and
print edition are filled with soothing content, can-do exercises and tips for
organizing a hectic medical or disability life.
There's even an entire Global
Resources section to clue readers in to worldwide charitable organizations willing to pay
part or all of your specific medical bills.
All you have to do is to ask for the assistance!
Who praises the book on and inside the cover?
Dr. Judith Guedalia Head of
Neuropsychiatry at Shaarei Zedek Hospital,
Addiction Rehabilitation professional Rabbi Dr. Avraham Twerski,
psychologist Dr. Lisa
Aiken,
Dr. Al Musella of the Musella Brain Tumor Research and Information Foundation
New York University Associate Professor Shiela Strauss, PhD
and
Medical ethicist Dr. Daniel
Eisenberg
among other public figures.
Need to Soothe Someone Sick or
Disabled? Yourself?
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Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge today for an exciting look at how you can lower your stress, get your grin back and lower your medical costs!
The USA is in a medical mess. The Supreme Court decision did not give anyone jobs so they can earn incomes. How will unemployed citizens, or poor Americans with jobs, pay healthcare imperative taxes?
What if you're reading this blog from another part of the globe? What can you do to afford better, or any, medical care missing from your life?
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Look at the expense of medical care these days. Nobody is giving the patient calming, cost-cutting answers. So the It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need to: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge book gives them to you.
I used my professional background in Health Information Management to write the book, including the Global Resources section at the back. It clues you into charitable organizations that pay for part, or all, of specific medical bills if you can’t afford the costs.
Have a child in England with a hearing and speaking disorder but can’t afford therapy and hearing aids? See page 90.
You’re Latino with a liver disease but can’t afford medical care? See page 108.
Need air transportation for an adult or child’s medical treatment? EMPOWER Yourself lists organizations ready to fly you and/or your loved one to the destination at no cost.
Want to get in on clinical trials?
Need a free wheelchair or other medical appliance at low cost?
How about first-quality medication at low or zero cost?
Learn how to meet your needs when you read EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.
I can't guarantee results, but I can give you a fighting chance to improve on your situation when you read
Find out what to do when medical personnel refuse or fail to listen to you. See this blog tomorrow for a patient-empowering update on that topic.
A journalist as well as an author, my schedule is filled with several complicated projects. One of them was not contracted for. It was a recent conversation with friends over a dinner together.
Those friends informed me of people suffering medical problems and all the emotional and financial costs that tend to go with them. We sighed together. I then named the pages of
that held solutions for the specified problems. As promised, I met with one of the affected individuals to offer some words of comfort and direction. Several days and book sales later, a grateful parent thanked me for having written the book: "Yocheved, now I feel like I'm catching up after I felt like life had left me and my family behind."
I'm still crying over the privilege of having been able to help yet another person struggling with medical, mental health or disability issues.
I have a fun program planned for Sunday evening 7-8PM March 18 2012.
A January audience in Netanya enjoyed it so much that they delayed my departure for more than an hour. I'll be sharing the fun this evening, as you learn how to lower your stress and how to reduce your medical costs - painlessly.
I look forward to meeting you in Jerusalem's AACI building (corner of 37 Pierre Koenig/2 Poalei Tzedek, Talpiot)! Yes you can buy signed copies of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge from me.
Call AACI at Tel: 972-2-5661181 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting972-2-5661181end_of_the_skype_highlighting or Fax: 972-2-5661186 for directions.
Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.
If the link didn't work for you, read this reproduced repartee:
John Puma MD asked, "Is this part of DIY, farmers markets before pharmacies, Facebook before family doc, food before drugs? Is it one idea?"
I responded, "It's an interesting take on a difficult dilemma: struggling to prevent one serious problem as we're inadvertently causing others. The intense, short-term pressure to seize solutions before their long-term effects are assessed is gut-wrenching. There are very real time limits on when we can no longer try to salvage or to save endangered lives. So we plunge into the Unknown hoping for the best. But some alleged Unknowns aren't. Evidence exists that some alternatives are better than drugs and surgery. But knowledge of those alternatives might be suppressed/unintentionally limited.
John, I've participated in discussions on this and other LinkedIn lists, and share a consensus with fellow respondents that food can - demonstrably - be medicine. FWIW, I advocate the use of superb nutrition while or instead of pursuing medical procedures. The effects of nutrition have been observed for thousands of years. Their trials are over. Dr .Dean Ornish reverses heart disease with food and lifestyle changes instead of cardiac procedures. Other medical trailblazers do likewise. Choosing low-tech lifestyle changes is risky, frightening and a personal judgment call. It's not a sure thing in any manner. But documented evidence proves that alternative healing/prevention techniques do succeed.
I'm marketing a feature story I wrote about extremely effective low-tech solutions for making the most of the remaining vision in brain-injured patients. The lesson of the medical experts quoted in my piece is this: western medicine too often opts for expensive procedures and/or medications when less lucrative, equally or more effective solutions exist. Patients are not necessarily fully informed of those low-cost, low-risk and high-yield options. Medical practitioners are pressured to make sustainable incomes as insurance companies pull their financial chains. It all makes for a moral mess.
I don't know how best to respond to your "Is this part of DIY?" question with guaranteed validity. I'll take a risk and remark that opening the discussion to invite broader thought processes and considerations (far beyond merely one idea) is a step in very productive directions.
I'm grateful that you have the courage to broach the topic. BTW, I recovered my sight due to a horrific medical situation that almost killed me. Surgery saved my life but not my sight. That returned after I made lifestyle changes. Shocked the heck outta my medical team (mostly teaching professors). I explain how similar choices can save other lives and their quality in an E-book praised by medical and mental health professionals: It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge."
John summed up our thoughts with "Thanks for the really thoughtful response, Yocheved, and good luck with your feature story: I think entertainment venues are underestimated in medicine as effective ways of communicating and actually healing as well. Warm regards, JL"
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Readers, I hope that you and someone who cares about you will ask important questions about the medications recommended to you. The impact on your life could be very, very important.
BTW, I might need to take some time off from updating the blog. My life is a bit hectic just now. I'll do my best to tap at you regularly and ask that you forgive me for occasional lapses.
are in very BIG trouble. If the US economy crashes, you probably won't be able to afford food let alone healthcare.
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iPhone-friendly E-book "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge"http://www.booklocker.com/books/4244.html helps you and your loved ones to strategize about how to get the best possible healthcare. Filled with can-do strategies for organizing and simplifying medical care processes, the text includes a Global Resources section for acquiring first-quality Medical Care, Medication, Medical Appliances and other Necessities around the world!
The chapters address spiritual, emotional, and painful physical issues, then illustrate reader-friendly solutions for them.
Here are praises for the
August 2009 release:
"I received EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge one week after I suffered my own medical crisis and found it very helpful. [It] will be of great benefit both in dealing with the fragile emotional health of sick patients and the stressful situation of the patient's caregiver… [with] very practical comprehensive information for dealing with a health-related crisis that is so seldom available to someone who is ill and preoccupied with their own troubles. Ill people are often compromised and often don't know where to look for guidance. Putting so much useful information at their fingertips will help them navigate the difficulties of a confusing medical system. Combined with [the author's] encouragement to never give up hope, the book will be of great aid to anyone with a sudden serious medical emergency." - Daniel Eisenberg, MD, Department of Radiology at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA; Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine; Medical Ethicist http://www.daneisenberg.com/
What a wonderful book! I am awed... In It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge, Golani challenges and energizes us all to partner with GD to seek and savor life to the fullest for both our mental and physical health. This book is lifesaving and at the same time emotionally rewarding, spiritual, funny and helpful... - Judith Guedalia, PhD. Director, Neuropsychology Unit and Chief Medical Psychologist ER Trauma (MCE)Team at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Licensed Psychologist #4976 Supervisor and Specialist Developmental, Rehabilitation and Medical Psychology EMDR Credentialed Therapist http://www.drjudithguedalia.com/
"What an incredible wealth of information: spiritual, philosophical, psychological, medical, etc! The book is filled with sound ideas and sage advice. I recommend it to everyone!" – R. Danny Myers, Ramat Bet Shemesh, Israel
"Yocheved Golani's guide issues a powerful 'can-do' message to those most in need of it. She shows the reader that one 'can;' that even one facing the most grievous of challenges has options and possibilities. A person facing a serious medical threat needs to believe that he or she can, that positivity and determination make a difference. But Golani also sets out a compelling argument for the 'do'. Take action, help yourself, get help from others, strategise, maximise whatever you've got. Do whatever needs to be done to get well and overcome your illness, even when you don't feel like it. It could save your life. It could save the life of your loved one. It is this combination of the can-positive attitude and the do-positive action that makes this guide so useful and complete. Its lessons extend far beyond the medical sphere to life challenges whatever they may be. They are lessons we can't afford to ignore. Good on you, Yocheved!" – Life Coach Y. Ives, England
"Being faced with a serious health challenge is like being in a dungeon. When light comes in one feels new hope and immense gratitude. This book was designed with great compassion by someone who had been in such a dungeon. She knows how any gesture of compassion can be lifesaving. Honor this book as something filled with treasures of knowledge, information and approaches that can be invaluable to anyone going through a medical crisis, even you. This book is a blessing. It can help many people to cope with their medical problems, filling them with hope..." - Lilliane Ritchie, Refuah Institute Professional Counselor Training Instructor
"This book is good. I added it to our recommended book list." - Al Musella, DPM Founder and Director The Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research & Information http://virtualtrials.com/books.cfm?bookid=47&vote=10
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Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.
Your doctor does surgery or some form of therapy, and writes prescriptions. He or she does not know all the answers to your questions about "how to get this," "how to find that," or "what if…"
Only exceptional doctors have time to discuss your concerns and fears. Most of them are busy with very hectic schedules, life-and- death decisions, and concerns about lawsuits. Talk about time-management problems!
You need to make progress at organizing that blizzard of medical and insurance papers, reaching appointments and finding answers to your questions.
Through it all, you must face your fears. If you don't, the mental mess-up can prevent you from making progress. Turn your terror about a medical situation into energy that gets answers and results you need.
iPhone-friendly E-book
can do all that for you.
The chapters read like hand-holding gentle guidance with easy instructions about how to solve many problems with your medical situation. Ditch your doctor. He or she can't be your personal organizer. That's what this book is for.
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"Large organizations, including government, have become completely disconnected from what matters to most people... "The most potent things are quite small... "Success lies in tactical activity... "Very small changes can have huge successes... "Big problems don't always need big solutions..." Mr. Sutherland says. Hmm, ring any bells?
Politicians have increased your medical costs and nightmares. Now there's an E-book that calms and soothes you. It also saves you time and money. It's a tiny thing that works, according to the Chief Detail Officers who've read and reviewed it. They're readers like you, plus medical and mental health professionals.
gives lots of information about how to get free or low-cost quality medication you need. Here's another resource for getting expensive medication you can't afford:
Be sure to study every page of that website. It has information about how to receive better reimbursement from insurance companies, how doctors can help their patients, savings programs and other information YOU need.
Need more information about how to cope with a medical situation? Calm down, learn to laugh again and find out how to get free or low-cost quality medical appliances when you read EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.
Coping with a Medical Crisis? Make the Changes You Need in Your Life
Readers, I appeal to you to do something very good for the world at large: contact CNN. Let the staff and worldwide readers there know: They need not be Priced Out of competent, curative medical care as this article indicates:
Patients Priced Out Sufferers of rare diseases are often priced out of the drugs market because of the high cost.
Contact CNN every which way you can. People need not suffer when solutions exist for them.
1) a company that refers people to worldwide practitioners of EVERY KNOWN FORM OF MEDICAL TREATMENT. What you'd call "Alternative" or "Complimentary Care" if you're minding Political Correctness protocols, AND what you'd know as standard Western medicine's cutting-edge practitioners.
(I know of ordinary people and medical practitioners whose lives were vastly improved by that one resource. It connected them with the person/s and treatment/s that added life to their endangered bodies. I even wrote a feature story about it all. You can request to purchase the story by contacting me at my journalist's E-address, yocheved@yochevedgolani.com).
2) Contact information for organizations that provide financial and/or other practical help in your quest for recovery and/or coping mechanisms. That sort of help can lead to acquiring or to developing the orphan drug in question, or to something else that can help the person in need.
Help someone you don't even know. Inform the world at large of a life-saving, quality-of-life enhancing resource listed in "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To."
