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Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics By H. Gilbert
Welch, Lisa M. Schwartz, Steven Woloshin (Paperback, 2008)
Every day we are bombarded by television ads public service announcements and media reports warning of dire risks to our health and offering solutions to help us lower those risks But many of these messages are incomplete misleading or exaggerated leaving the average person misinformed and confused Know Your Chances is a lively accessible and carefully researched book that can help consumers sort through this daily barrage by teaching them how to interpret the numbers behind the messagesIn clear and simple steps the authors - all of them staff physicians at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in White River Junction Vermont - take the mystery out of medical statistics By learning to understand the medical statistics and knowing what questions to ask readers will be able to see
through the hype and find out what - if any - credible information remains The book's easy-to-understand charts will help ordinary people put their health concerns into perspective This short reader-friendly volume will foster communication between patients and doctors and provide the basic critical-thinking skills necessary for navigating today's confusing health landscape
through the hype and find out what - if any - credible information remains The book's easy-to-understand charts will help ordinary people put their health concerns into perspective This short reader-friendly volume will foster communication between patients and doctors and provide the basic critical-thinking skills necessary for navigating today's confusing health landscape
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