• Complete Guide to Family Health, Nutrition & Fitness: Building Your Body, Mind, & Soul- One Dayat a Time, Paul C. Reisser, MD, Tyndale House, Carol Stream, Ill., 2006. The official book of The Focus on the Family Physicians Resource Council USA.

• Complete Guide to Symptoms, Illness, & Surgery, 5th Edition. Winter H.Griffith MD, Penguin Putnam,New York, 2006. Features more than 2000 symptoms, 500 illnesses and disorders, 170 illustrated surgeries. Includes information on complications and outcomes. CD-ROM with additional information and links to Websites.

• God’s Design for the Highly Healthy Person, Walt Larimore MD, with Traci Mullins, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2003. A complete health guide: helps you live your life with physical, relational, emotional, and spiritual balance.

• Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide, Anthony, Komaroff, Simon & Schuster, New York, N.Y., 1999. Online companion at http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/. “Helps you deal with the age of managed care and HMOs. Information includes: How to find out about the quality of medical care given bydoctors, hospitals, and HMOs. Explains managed care and other kinds of health insurance and health systems, and your rights as a patient. Helps you to understand and accurately describe your symptoms, determine when to call the doctor, helps you ask the right questions, make informed choices, and demand and receive the best medical care available.” (Back Cover).

• Know Your Body: the Atlas of Anatomy, Emmet B.Keeffe MD, Ulysses Press, Berkeley, CA, 1999.Authoritatively written by medical specialists and richly illustrated to help you understand the parts of the body and how it works.

• Know Your Options: The Definitive Guide to Choosing the Best Medical Treatments, Reader’s Digest,2005. Remedies the doctor might not tell you about, impartial evaluation of widely used drugs and surgery, natural solutions, lifestyle changes that work, and more.

• Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, Third Edition, Harper Collins, New York, N. Y., 2003. Contains authoritative medical information for every member of the family, covering every system of the body and every stage of life from newborn to old age.

• Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-Care: Answers for Everyday Health Problems, 4th Edition, Philip T. Hagen,Kensington Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 2003.“Take the anxiety out of common health problems with this useful how-to book. Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-Care explains what you can do for yourself and when to seek medical attention. It also describes how to respond effectively to medical emergencies and what you an do to prevent or manage specific conditions such as arthritis and asthma.” (Back Cover).

• Mayo Clinic, Heredity & Your Health: Building a Family Medical Tree (877-647-6397) or www.mayoclinic.com

• Navigating the Medical Maze, Steven L. Brown M.D., Brazo Press, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2007. Covers patient doctor communication, alternative medicine, evaluating medical advice, understanding the emotional aspects of illness and more…http://www.drstevenbrown.org

• Power To The Patient: Treatments to Insist on When You Are Sick, Isadore Rosenfeld MD. WarnerBooks Inc, New York, N.Y., 2002. “Arms you with facts you need to make sure you get the best treatments; when and why to insist on specific treatments and tests, a second opinion, or hospitalization when you are sick.” (Back Cover).

• The American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia, Random House, New York, 2003.An A-Z guide to more than 5,000 medical terms with information on symptoms, diseases, drugs, treatments, and more,

• The American Medical Association Family Medical Guide, 4th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,Hoboken, NJ, 2004: “Opening with a brand-new full-color section that walks you through key health issues, it follows with several new and expanded sections on everything from staying healthy and providing first aid and home care to diagnosing symptoms and treating hundreds of different diseases and disorders.” (Back Cover)

• The Cornell Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia: The Definitive Medical Home Reference Guide, Antonio M. Gotto Jr, MD PhD, Lifeline Press, Regnery Publishing, Washington D. C., 2002. Covers diseases, anatomical systems, drugs, procedures and other health topics in a clear, direct, and engaging style.

• The Easy Will and Living Will Kit: 3 Easy Steps to Complete Your Will, Living Will, and Power of TheAttorney, Joy S. Chambers, Attorney at Law, Sphinx Publishing, Naperville, Ill. 2005.

• Johns Hopkins Complete Home Guide to Pills and Medicines, Editors of Johns Hopkins Medical LetterHealth After 50, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., New York, N. Y., 2005.Authoritative information by 60 Johns Hopkins specialists on over 3,000 medications in easy to understand language. Also includes valuable information on herbs and dietary supplements.

• The Johns Hopkins Complete Home Guide to Symptoms and Remedies, Black Dog & LeventhalPublishers, Inc., New York, N.Y., 2004. A unique layout that makes it easy to use. The first part helps you match your symptoms to possible diagnoses. Part two gives details of the disorders: cause, prevention, treatment, when to call the doctor, and more.

• The Johns Hopkins Consumers Guide to Medical Tests: What You Can Expect, How You ShouldPrepare, What Your Results Mean, Simon Margolis MD, Medletter Associates, Inc., New York, N.Y., 2001.

• The John Hopkins Family Health Book, Harper Collins, New York, NY, 1998. Covers a broad range of family health issues. Focuses on maintaining health and preventing diseases. Part V is on becoming a partner in your healthcare.

• The Johns Hopkins Medical Guide to Health After 50: The Latest Recommendations from the Hopkins Specialists, Simon Margolis MD, Medletter Associates, Inc., New York, New York, 2001. A practical handbook, which clearly explains the measures you can take to increase longevity and protect yourself from the avoidable ailments of aging—and how to deal effectively with those ailments you can’t avoid.

• The Merck Manual of Medical Information, Second Home Edition: The World’s Most Widely UsedMedical Reference – Now In Everyday Language, Mark H. Beers, Merck Research Laboratories, Whitehouse Station, NJ, 2004-2005. The same reference doctors use in easy-to-understand everyday language in a reader-friendly format. Covers symptoms, causes, treatments, and tests.

• The PDR Pocket Guide to Prescription Drugs, 7th Edition, Pocket Books, a division of Simon &Schuster, Inc., 2005. Easy-to-understand drug profiles from the official FDA-approved PDR (Physicians’ Desk Reference) used by doctors.

• The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?, Rick Warren, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2002.

• The Smart Mothers Guide to a Better Pregnancy, Linda Burke-Galloway, MD (http://smartmothersguide.com/index.html)

• You: The Owner’s Manual: Insiders Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger, Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz, HarperCollins, New York, NY, 2005. Guide to How the Body Works and How to Maintain Health.

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