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Choose Wisely Medical Conditions
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Working with your Doctor. Help Patients Make Choices. When your doctor recommends a drug, treatment or test, be sure to ask if it's appropriate for you. To help guide your discussion with your doctor, we've included a list of articles below from "Consumer Reports" and other patient friendly groups. From: The Joint Commission. Everybody feels blue sometimes, but depression is more than that. Don't wait for depression to go away, Speak Up and get the help you need! Cancer Tests and Treatments. This summary...
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TCYH Planned Early Deliveries for Patients
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Working with your Doctor. Help Patients Make Choices. For decades, organizations like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the March of Dimes have been promoting the importance of full-term pregnancies those naturally reaching at least 39 weeks gestation yet early elective deliveries. Still account for 10-15 percent of all deliveries. Partner with your doctor or caregiver to create a birth plan. Join us on our Healthy Babies, Healthy Pregnancies Facebook page. The Midwest Bu...
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TCYH Medications
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Working with your Doctor. Help Patients Make Choices. On this page, you will find information and websites to help you to manage the medications you and your family take regularly. There are PLENTY of excuses for not taking your medications, but none of them keep you healthy. Click on your excuse below and get helpful information and tips you can use today! For more information on taking your medications, click More Resources underneath the pictures. Ask a family member to remind you. Ask your doctor abo...
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Choose Wisely among Screening Test Options
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Working with your Doctor. Help Patients Make Choices. When your doctor recommends a drug, treatment or test, be sure to ask if it's appropriate for you. To help guide your discussion with your doctor, we've included a list of articles below from "Consumer Reports" and other patient friendly groups. If you do not have symptoms or a medical evaluation that points to an allergy, you should think twice about skin or blood testing for allergies. When you need a brain scan and when you don't. It's worth gettin...
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Take Control of your Diabetes
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Working with your Doctor. Help Patients Make Choices. On this page you will find information and websites to help you to identify, prevent and manage diabetes. Diabetes can happen to anyone. Know your risk factors. Eating a diet high in calories and fat. Having family members who had diabetes. Frequent thirst or urination. Being tired all the time. Diabetes can affect other parts of your body:. Your eyes, kidneys and nerves. It can lead to heart disease. Reduce your chances of getting diabetes:.
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Choose Wisely Working with Your Doctor
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Working with your Doctor. Help Patients Make Choices. The patient-physician relationship is one of the most important partnerships you will have in your life. You'll be sharing important personal and confidential information about your health, lifestyle and medical concerns. And, when your doctor suggests a treatment, screening or drug, you should be able to ask questions and be a partner in decisions that impact your health and pocketbook. Do they have the specialists you need there? How to know quality.
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Take Control of your Smoking
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Working with your Doctor. Help Patients Make Choices. On this page, you will find information and websites to help you understand why smoking can hurt you, how it can hurt the quality of your life and what you can do to stop smoking. A healthy adult should not use any tobacco products at all. Shows you just how fast your body can recover even from years of smoking related damage. Ulcers, sinus problems. Take the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence. Is intended to help you or someone you care about qu...
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Choosing Wisely among Treatment and Proceedure Options
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Working with your Doctor. Help Patients Make Choices. When your doctor recommends a drug, treatment or test, be sure to ask if it's appropriate for you. To help guide your discussion with your doctor, we've included a list of articles below from "Consumer Reports" and other patient friendly groups. From: The Joint Commission. Nearly 40 million anesthetics are administered annually in the U.S. Antibiotics for Respiratory Illness in Children. Antibiotics for Urinary Tract Infections in Older People. You ca...
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TCYH Health Professionals COPD Materials
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Working with your Doctor. Help Patients Make Choices. TCYH is a community health awareness initiative. We have created this section to support your efforts in helping patients better manage their health conditions. The site contains non-branded, non-product specific information, materials, tools and links on smoking cessation. Resources for Medical Practitioners. Each of the materials can be downloaded by clicking on the hyperlinks. Updated June 23, 2013.