Beyond the Prescription: A Doctor's Guide to Taking Charge of Your Health - Rilegato

Mcbride, Lucy

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ISBN 10: 1668024381 ISBN 13: 9781668024386

Casa editrice: S&S/Simon Element, 2026

Riassunto

A practical road map to become a more empowered patient and reclaim agency over your health.

As a primary care physician with her own healthcare struggles, Dr. Lucy McBride knows what it’s like to feel powerless—caught between a health care system that rushes through appointments focused on testing and prescriptions, and a wellness industry full of expensive false promises. She understands the frustration of transactional encounters, not knowing who to trust, and the sense that nobody sees you as a whole person.

In Beyond the Prescription, Dr. McBride offers a solution: a proven five-step process to help you take charge of your health and shift the locus of control from external checklists to your own informed decisions.

The Five Steps to Becoming the CEO of Your Health:
1. Redefine health on your own terms: Move beyond narrow metrics like BMI and cholesterol to understand what health truly means for you
2. Understand your broad health ecosystem: Expand the aperture on your health to include nutrition, mental health, and crucial elements of your life story using Dr. McBride’s four-quadrant framework (Informatics, Inputs, Infrastructure, and Insight)
3. Reckon with your patient personality: Discover how you naturally approach healthcare and how to leverage your strengths while addressing your blind spots
4. Ask for—and get—the help you need: Learn to navigate the medical system, ask better questions, and find trusted guides
5. Accept what you cannot control: Make peace with uncertainty and focus your energy where it matters most

This isn’t about becoming your own doctor or rejecting modern medicine. It's about moving from awareness to acceptance to agency—transforming yourself from a passive patient into an empowered partner who knows how to advocate for comprehensive, relationship-centered care.

Beyond the Prescription is like having a trusted doctor by your side, helping you ask better questions, advocate for yourself, and reframe what it means to be healthy. Whether you're managing a chronic condition, navigating a new diagnosis, seeking better care, or trying to make sense of conflicting health advice, this book is your guide to getting the care you need.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Lucy McBride, MD, is a primary care physician and cofounder of the Ackerly McBride Group in Washington, DC. For over twenty-five years, she has practiced evidence-based, relationship-centered medicine. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Medical School, with a master’s degree in pharmacology from Cambridge as a Fulbright Scholar, she completed her internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She writes the weekly newsletter Are You Okay? and hosts the podcast Beyond the Prescription. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and USA TODAY. She has contributed to CNN, MSNBC, and PBS, advocating for a holistic, patient-centered approach to health.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: S&S/Simon Element
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1668024381
• ISBN 13: 9781668024386
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile