Patient Power: How to Have a Say During Your Hospital Stay
- ISBN-10
- 0932620663
- ISBN-13
- 9780932620668
- Series
- Patient Power
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 130
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
- Publisher
- Betterway Books
- Author
- Iris Sneider
Description
Gives practical advice about hosptial selection, patient's rights, admission, health insurance, surgery, special care, and discharge
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Other editions
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- 1996-07-16
- 416 pages
- Paperback
- Simon and Schuster
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