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Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics Paperback – Illustrated, November 30, 2008
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- Print length158 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication dateNovember 30, 2008
- Dimensions7 x 0.5 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100520252225
- ISBN-13978-0520252226
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“ Delightful and educational reading, simple enough for laypeople to understand yet academic enough to meet the needs of . . . . students.” -- L. Synovitz ― Choice Published On: 2009-07-01
“Know Your Chances is an accessible and empowering text.” ― Journal Of Biosocial Science Published On: 2011-02-07
“A great reminder that . . . medical claims should always be evaluated by how they affect you and your current state of health.” ― Highlands Today Published On: 2008-12-20
“A great reminder that . . . medical claims should always be evaluated by how they affect you and your current state of health.” ― Tampa Tribune Published On: 2008-12-20
“Read this book first and then think again.” ― Time Magazine Published On: 2009-03-26
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"We have a deluge of medical information coming from caregivers, drug companies, and the media. Some of this is accurate and important, some misleading and irrelevant. This concise and clearly written primer gives us a strategy to navigate through these data and arrive at an intelligent understanding of what we need for our health and what we can forgo." Jerome Groopman, MD, author of How Doctors Think
"Valuable to any patient or prospective patient, from junior high schoolers to senior citizens." Joel Best, author of Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data
"Many people have an interest in making you unnecessarily afraid about diseases you're not likely to get or cause you to have unrealistic expectations about the benefits of treatment. This book gives you the skills to make your own judgments about these claims. It provides a roadmap for deciphering the kinds of statistics that keep us from making truly informed decisions." Maryann Napoli, Associate Director of Center for Medical Consumers
"The authors have done a remarkable job of dispelling the clouds that often separate people from the medical information that they need. Know Your Chances reflects the authors' confidence that, with a little help, people can make sound decisions about their own health." Baruch Fischhoff, author of Acceptable Risk
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"We have a deluge of medical information coming from caregivers, drug companies, and the media. Some of this is accurate and important, some misleading and irrelevant. This concise and clearly written primer gives us a strategy to navigate through these data and arrive at an intelligent understanding of what we need for our health and what we can forgo."―Jerome Groopman, MD, author of How Doctors Think
"Valuable to any patient or prospective patient, from junior high schoolers to senior citizens."―Joel Best, author of Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data
"Many people have an interest in making you unnecessarily afraid about diseases you're not likely to get or cause you to have unrealistic expectations about the benefits of treatment. This book gives you the skills to make your own judgments about these claims. It provides a roadmap for deciphering the kinds of statistics that keep us from making truly informed decisions."―Maryann Napoli, Associate Director of Center for Medical Consumers
"The authors have done a remarkable job of dispelling the clouds that often separate people from the medical information that they need. Know Your Chances reflects the authors' confidence that, with a little help, people can make sound decisions about their own health."―Baruch Fischhoff, author of Acceptable Risk
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- Publisher : University of California Press; First Edition (November 30, 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 158 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0520252225
- ISBN-13 : 978-0520252226
- Item Weight : 11.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 7 x 0.5 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,631,561 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #210 in Health Risk Assessment (Books)
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Dr. H. Gilbert Welch is an internist at Brigham and Women's Hospital - Center for Surgery and Public Health (go figure), and a nationally recognized expert on the effects of medical testing. He has been published by the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, as well as major medical journals, and he has appeared on network television, CNN, and NPR. Dr. Welch is the author of three books, Less Medicine, More Health; Should I Be Tested for Cancer?; and the highly acclaimed Overdiagnosed.
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