Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Patient Confidential Endorsements



Steven J. Mash, M.D., Orthopaedic Surgeon and founding shareholder of M & M Orthpaedics, Ltd. Wrote: “Patient Confidential is the book every doctor wishes their patient would read before starting treatment.  Patient Confidential will give the reader the ability to be a smart consumer and partner in his or her own health care decisions.”

 

Lois Hoitenga Roelofs, Ph.D., RN, Professor Emerita of Nursing, Trinity Christian College and Author of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey of Faith and Self wrote: “From my perspective as a nurse, teacher, and oftentimes patient myself, I recommend Patient Confidential as a must-have tool that promises to greatly diminish fear-of-the-unknown that naturally occurs when pushed into new and strange environments. Lang’s humor, too, will smooth your journey.”

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Good News About Healthcare


 
As I write in my new book, Patient Confidential, Tips and Advice to Keep You Safe As You Navigate the Healthcare System, “the good news is that as an educated and vigilant patient or caregiver, you can protect yourself or your loved-one from incompetent healthcare providers, competent ones who make honest mistakes, ones who are dishonest, and health insurance companies.”

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Countdown to Launch - Patient Confidential


I am anxiously anticipating the launch this Fall of my new book, Patient Confidential, Tips and Advice to Keep You Safe As You Navigate the Healthcare System. Unfortunately, I am a frequent-flier patient. It started in earnest when I was twelve years old and has continued for over fifty-seven years. I have had over thirty-five surgeries or invasive procedures and spent, in the aggregate, over sixty days in at least six hospitals and countless partial days in outpatient surgery settings, MRI machines, CT Scanners, physical therapy clinics, doctors’ offices and laboratories. I wrote Patient Confidential because I think I can help almost all people, whether they are patients or care givers, by relating all that I learned from my too-vast experience.
 
Rich Lang