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Up to Your Armpits in Alligators? How to Sort Out What Risks Are Worth Worrying About!
by John Paling
Product Group: Book
Publisher: The Risk Communication Institute (1994-07)
ISBN: 0964223600
EAN: 9780964223608
Paperback: 208 pages
SKU: 071207003
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: This Signed, Inscription copy is in very good condition. No visible markings, highlights, underlining, tears. Tight spine. No Dust Jacket. Clean Soft Cover with light shelf/edge wear. Remarkable copy, worth having at an affordable price. (L4-87)
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Product Description
This easy-to-read book shows busy healthcare professionals how simple decision aids can help patients - and themselves.
It first reviews the real reasons that patients often struggle to understand the facts about their risks and then offers a "tool box" of practical strategies that have the potential to significantly improve the effectiveness of the process. The author also claims that, in addition to more effectively communicating numbers, sharing visual aids with patients also serves as a valuable tool to strengthen doctor-patient partnerships.
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Customer Reviews
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The Reality of Life, Death & Alligators.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-06-06
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Although I purchased this book for research data, I ended up finding it a worthwhile gift for my paranoid friends. That would be most of the people I know. My own study of all forms of meditation practice in the US indicates that obsessive worry is the most common. Paling's wit and flawless research could help reduce that unproductive practice. The facts and data are presented in a readable, page turning fashion, and the author provides information on everything from the liklihood have being a robbery victim in your lifetime (99%) to being struck by lightening (1 in 20 million). Some of the sociological realities are scarey: the average prison sentence served for murder is 5 years. "Alligators..." let's us know how and when to worry, which is not much, and what is truly worth worrying about, not at all what you thought.
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