You know how it is; consultations with your doctor can be underwhelming.
Typically, you just don’t know enough to take part actively in decisions about your treatment, and consultations often feel rushed, so there’s little discussion. Then, when you get home, you think of loads of questions you wish you had asked. All this can leave you feeling helpless and with little control over your care.
The Pocket Doctor Handbooks aim to change this. These rigorously-researched handbooks are written by experienced doctors to provide information clearly and straightforwardly. The handbooks guide you through all aspects of diagnosis and treatment and act as a reference you can turn to with all your questions.
Armed with knowledge and facts, you will be confident to discuss the issues with your doctor and be fully involved in decisions about your care. You won’t need to feel helpless and dependent on your doctor any longer.
Ben and David understand the challenges of consultations that never seem long enough. Concerned that patients are sometimes left with more questions than answers, they resolved to do something about it.
Out of this, The Pocket Doctor series was born. The books are targeted at people with serious and/or complicated medical conditions. Ben and David want to provide you with all the information you need to properly understand your condition, and do so in a way that is easy to digest and makes it simple to find the answers you need.
We aim for The Pocket Doctor handbooks to be the best resource you can find. Many of us turn to the web for medical information, but what’s out there is confusing, and it’s hard to tell what’s true and what’s not. We take this worry away from you. We research and collate information from thousands of journal articles, textbooks and online resources, so you can be confident that the information in The Pocket Doctor handbooks reflects experts’ current thinking on each disease we write about.
One last but crucial point: The human body is hugely complex, diseases don’t always behave as the medical textbooks say they should, and conditions and drugs interact. Doctors spend years learning their craft and their whole lifetimes refining it. There is no substitute for the expert opinion of your doctor. The purpose of these handbooks is to enable you to make the most effective use of the time with your doctor, not to replace it.
