What Your Doctor Is Saying - Healthy Lifestyle

What Your Doctor Is Saying

•	The Case for Moderation
•	The Many Ways To Say 'Normal'
•	Taking the Pain Out of Pain Relievers
•	Twisted Medicine
•	Understanding Why Your Doctor Might Say No
•	Feet Matter
•	Uncertainty: Medicine's Frequent Companion
•	Pool Rules: What Your (Public Health) Doctor Is Saying
•	Decoding the '-Omas'
•	What Are the Odds? Understanding Risk
•	The '-osis' Diagnosis
•	Making Sense Of Medical Warnings
•	Decoding the 'Plasties'
•	Name That Drug
•	Medical Terminology - When Size Matters
•	Placebos -- What Your Doctor Is or Isn't Saying
•	What I've Learned by Listening
•	What Makes a Drug a Drug?
•	Tech Speak
•	Mysterious Acronyms
•	The Ultimate Natural Remedy
•	Learning From History
•	Common Versus Rare Conditions
•	Medical Doctors Or Spin Doctors: Sorting Through Conflicting Information
•	The Many Faces of Heart Disease
•	Math In Medicine: Know Your 'Rithmetic
•	The World Of Syndromes
•	Name That Disease!
•	Describing A Hospital Patient's Condition
•	Top Five Digestion Misconceptions
•	Medical Terminology - The Case For Accuracy
•	The 'Excluding' Language Of Medicine
•	Body Language: Telling Your Anterior From Your Posterior
•	Inflammatory Words
•	The Mystery of the 'Opathies'
•	Understanding Your Prescription Slip
•	How To Understand When Your Doctor Talks Statistics
•	Sometimes It's 'I Don't Know'
•	Who's Who in Your Health Care, Part 1: In the Hospital
•	Reading Your Medical Record
•	Who's Who in Your Health Care, Part 2: Non-M.D.s
•	When the Research Doctor Says, 'More Study Needed'
•	Symptoms -- Location, Location, Location
•	Not So Fast: Why Your Doctor Is Skeptical
•	How Your Doctor Looks at Research: the Error Factor
•	'Dys' Can Help You Understand Your Doctor
•	When Your Doctor Is Vague
•	'Hypo'-thetically Speaking
•	Medical Test Results: Are You Normal, and Is That a Good Thing?
•	A Day in the Life
•	Getting 'Hyper'
•	Circulation Troubles -- What Do They Mean?

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