Patient, help heal thyself
Article Abstract:
This article focuses on the need for patients in Australia's health care system to take a proactive role in their treatment. Relevant details include the health system's lack of benefits for consumers because of fragmentation and unnecessary complication, the tendency of patients to agree to uncalled-for tests or treatments, and role of consumer education in improving health care choices.
Publication Name: The Bulletin with Newsweek
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1440-7485
Year: 1999
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Beating the odds
Article Abstract:
Australia has seen the introduction of off-pump surgery in coronary artery bypass graft operations where the heart continues to beat. The benefits of this operation are many, but each case is individual and information is important.
Publication Name: The Bulletin with Newsweek
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1440-7485
Year: 2001
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