Making the Case for Case Managers

B'SD

6/7 Tamuz, 5775

I'm sharing an important FYI with you. I just posted it to one of my facebook pages.

Empower Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge

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THIS is why patients need case managers, advocates, friends & relatives speaking up for them! ‪#‎malpractice‬ http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/…/when-doctors-dont-talk-to…/…

When Doctors Don't Talk to Doctors

Poor communication between doctors and patients is discussed relatively frequently. But what about confusion between the teams of doctors who share patients in the hospital?

WELL.BLOGS.NYTIMES.COM|BY ALLISON BOND

Empower Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge

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Please read pages 42-47 (Lessons for Caregivers) of  EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge and photocopy the content. Hand out copies to members of your medical team and the supervisors of the medical sites treating you or someone important to you.



Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Use it to protect yourself and people important to you.





Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fend off problems with pro-active behavior.

Here's a Health Book that's EASY to Understand Even if English isn't Your Mother Tongue!

B'SD


10 Adar 5772


From time to time people contact me to ask if Hebrew-speakers would be able to understand

My answer is an enthusiastic "YES!" I wrote the book to meet the needs of a wide variety of people. It sells all over Europe, where people do not necessarily speak English as their mother tongue.

EMPOWER Yourself is meant to be shared with your loved ones, friends and/or doctors and therapists. It puts you in increasing control of your medical, disability and mental health situation. That's why so many medical and mental health professionals endorse the book or recommend it to patients.

Find out how to:

1. Remember the names and 

contact information

of doctors with names 

you can't pronounce

2. Sort out confusing details 

with your medical 

appointments schedule

3. Communicate important ideas 

if you find it difficult 

to speak with people

There's so much more between the covers to help English and non-English speakers in EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. It breaks language barriers.

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Hey Teach, Check this Out! Schools Need Decency, Discipline and... Good Sense with Disabled Students!

B'SD


1 Elul 5771

The new school year is beginning and that means LOTS of scared students in every age group!


The problem is more painful for students with disabilites. They must face the gaffes, rudeness and utter lack of insight in teaching staff and the student body. Learning school subjects is hard enough with being harassed, misunderstood and gosh, just name the unnecessary, undeserved and completely inappropriate complication!

So, I'm preparing a 2-part blogpost for helping people to AVOID making misguided statements and taking inappropriate actions that disabled students of every age face in school settings at the start of - and all through - the school year. 
 

I pray that my efforts will
minimize the problems.

Part 1 is entitled "10 Ways to Embarrass Disabled/Ill Kids at School" and Part 2 is entitled "10 BEST Ways to Interact with Disabled/Ill Kids at School."

I welcome your input. Please share insights with me about tips to share (I have some ready to be posted). I will not use your names if you request anonymity. Send your comments to giveretgolani@gmail.com.

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge using insights from a book that mental health therapists recommend.

Buy it at http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html


Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

NEWSFLASH for CAREGIVERS!

B'SD



There's an important article at Offering Care for the Caregiver.

Once you read it, consider the problems you can avoid by reading the cautionary and restorative ideas in the 2007 print book



or in the digital 2009 update



Here's to better mental, emotional and physical health for all concerned.

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Communicate with Companions When You See the Doctor (or, How to Get Your Medical Story Straight)

12 Tamuz 5768


According to Johns Hopkins University's expert on such matters, Jennifer L. Wolff, PhD, assistant professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Health Policy and
Management, older patients do better when someone takes them to doctor visits and participates in communication efforts with relevant medical professionals.

Wolff says, "We found that patients were more satisfied with their care when visit companions were actively involved in the communication between patient and provider."

Gosh. My book explains why EVERYONE is better off taking a friend or relative along on doctor visits: The STRESS of facing an illness (pain, fear, sadness), coupled with the complications affecting the patient's health (dietary and medicinal changes, a body that's working in negative and embarrasing ways, endless phone calls and faxes, the tiring and maddening efforts to reach medical appointments etc.) tends to dominate the patient's focus. Memory banks seem to need help for handling added information.

The patient needs a sympathetic, attentive listener on hand to clarify matters with medical professionals and to keep the patient informed of ever-changing realities. Many of those realities cause further emotional turmoil. The sick person needs a "time out" so to speak, to make an emotional recovery while someone else records new appointments for medical tests, figures out how to finesse necessary paperwork and all that other dreary stuff.

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

lists suggestions for making the most of medical visits with a little advance preparation and wise follow-up ideas. Having a companion along for doctor visits is only one piece of medical and mental health professional-approved advice in the book.

Read It's MY Crisis! to learn why medical and mental health professionals find it so helpful for making medical progress.

My can-do strategies for improving communication with medical professionals are effective, low-cost, and easy to accomplish!

Need to improve YOUR doctor-patient communication efforts?

My book is an equal-opportunity read. It helps everybody on both sides of the exam table ;^ )

CLICK HERE

to Buy your copy of

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

TODAY!

To your ever-improving health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life