Imagine truly being seen and heard by your physician by
inserting your qualities of life into your prognosis.
Studies have shown that when both physician and patient
make shared-medical decisions, there is greater
post-treatment success.
inserting your qualities of life into your prognosis.
Studies have shown that when both physician and patient
make shared-medical decisions, there is greater
post-treatment success.
“ Everybody Needs a Hippo “ focuses in a clear and humorous way the importance of factoring in quality of life considerations when making treatment path decisions. It was created and written by Adam Goodman and Nicolas Nastase. It is a little 36-page, adult fairytale and a Dr. Seuss/Disneyesque style that takes the reader through the “patient side” of the medical experience. The hippo can stand for a hippopotamus or the Hippocratic Oath. With comic relief, the reader learns how to obtain real answers to her/his unique medical condition, resulting in the ability to make truly informed medical decisions. It introduces the Quality of Life chart, providing an easy way for doctors and patients to collaborate, Jointly participating in the prognosis, and enables the doctor to respect the patient when prescribing a treatment plan.
It’s all about “Patient-Centered Medicine” and true "Informed Consent".
Listen to the talk Nastase gave to the Prostate Awareness Foundation,
about the medical events that led up to Adam Goodman’s and his writing of
“Everybody Needs A Hippo”, and how simply trusting your doctor is not enough.
Learn how you can help your physicians help you, as you help them.
Please enjoy our gift of reading "Everybody Needs A Hippo".
(a 15-minute read)
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Our book has been created from actual patient-provider experiences and a great deal of research.
We hope to contribute to the change from Newtonian Medicine to Quantum Medicine.
Please press the Medical References button for an in-depth library of articles, talks, videos, and books.
We hope to contribute to the change from Newtonian Medicine to Quantum Medicine.
Please press the Medical References button for an in-depth library of articles, talks, videos, and books.
Supporting Champions is the medical division of Human Advocacy, Inc.
Human Advocacy, Inc. was created because of the many problems plaguing medicine. For example, "Doctors must come out from behind our technologies and catheters. With medicine's heightened focus on technology, physicians have allowed our communication skills to atrophy. But doctors owe patients critical information in order for them to retain both the autonomy and the dignity they deserve." Wired Magazine, 4,18,2017. For many more, push the Medical References button.
Scroll down to see the Quality of Life chart, and how this simple free tool will improve your medical communications, reduce unnecessary medical treatments, reduce pain and suffering, reduce Medicare waste...
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No matter how you define your qualities of life, they are, in fact, your unique qualities of life. Imagine, Your physician takes into consideration, what is important to you; what makes your life, good. Imagine, Your physician respecting those qualities of life when prescribing a treatment plan for you. Click the button below to see how easy it is. Qualities of life are the unique traits that make your life worth living. Qualities can be as simple as swallowing, smelling, feeling...to running 26 miles. Each one of us is different and our medical providers would far better serve us respecting
our QoL when prescribing a treatment plan. To see how important and how easy it is to incorporate your qualities of life into your prognosis... |
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