Hospitalization

This brochure provides simple but very useful advice to help you make you or your loved one's hospital stay or visit a safe and positive experience.

An empowering book designed to create Priority Patients who will not only survive, but who will master the currently fragmented Canadian health care system. It will help them transform their doctor/patient relationships into partnerships. This book includes many step-by-step instructions and lists, as well as a bonus section designed to help patients create their own health care diary. The book covers interaction with your doctors, hospital stay, patient safety issues, patient's participation in health decisions, legal aspects and more.

My Operation sharply contrasts the author's experience as a patient with both his insights as a health care expert and his complete medical record. The result is a study of the health care system for everyone from professionals to policy-makers to patients. The book gives us an insight into the discrepancy between what we know about the health care system and what it really is.

This page provides a checklist that helps patients and their caregivers to decide what to pack for a hospital stay when one is admitted to a hospital.

The author's vivid experiences form the basis of this guide to becoming a patient advocate. Her life-saving lessons will help you choose the best hospital, develop a partnership with caregivers, prevent medical mistakes, and avoid caregiver burnout. Along with practical advice for enforcing patient rights, executing power of attorney, and avoiding inappropriate hospital charges, the author also explores how to bolster the body, mind, and soul of a critically ill loved one through prayer, positivity, and spiritual healing.