Medical Tests That Can Save Your Life
Nisha Jackson interviews, Dr. David Johnson, author of "Medical Tests That Can Save Your Life." This information packed interview is helpful for any listeners that would like more information on they medical tests they should be asking for.

Medical Tests That Can Save Your Life Nisha Jackson interviews, Dr. David Johnson, author of "Medical Tests That Can Save Your Life." This information packed interview is helpful for any listeners that would like more information on they medical tests they should be asking for. David Johnson, Ph.D., discusses breakthrough medical tests that can find dozens of deadly diseases before it's too late. Yet because of the state of modern healthcare, most patients don't know that these tests are available -- let alone which ones to have, what they're called, or how to ask for them. David Johnson, Ph.D., is an associate professor and chairman in the department of physiology at the College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine. Book Description You may be at high risk for a deadly disease without knowing it. And in this case, what you don't know can kill you. This important book can help save your life. For the first time, two doctors inform us about lifesaving medical tests that can diagnose deadly diseases--including various cancers, heart disease, aneurysm, and stroke--at their earliest stages when they're most likely to respond to treatment. Some of these tests are so new that your doctor may not know they exist! This book will help you construct your Personal Risk Profile-based on your age, gender, ethnicity, family medical history, and environmental hazards. You'll then use this profile to determine exactly which medical tests to take-and you'll learn how taking these tests can rescue you from an avoidable, premature death. Dedicated to improving the quality of care available to all patients, Drs. Johnson and Sandmire guide you through each of these tests, explaining the process, cost, reliability, and potential health risks in language that you can understand. They also offer strategies for persuading your doctor to order the tests and convincing your insurance company to foot the bill. And if your insurer won't pay, they'll let you know where to go to get the tests for a reasonable price. A Note from Dr. Johnson: HMO policy makers essentially try to make medicine black and white when there are actually many shades of gray. A patient could come in and have a set of signs and symptoms that are a clear-cut suggestion that a certain disease is present and no question the doctor should order that diagnostic test. Or a patient may come in, on the other end of the extreme, have no symptoms, be in perfect health and it's pretty clear that that patient shouldn't have a diagnostic exam. Most of us fall in between those two extremes; there are shades of gray. And it's those shades of gray cases where the patient really needs to step up to the plate. They need to come in informed about their risk factors, the things that they have been exposed to in their work environment, their lifestyle habits, are they a smoker are they a drinker, their family medical history. All of that needs to be gotten out in a fairly short amount of time in kind of a pressure packed fourteen or fifteen-minute doctor visit.