{"product_id":"what-your-doctor-wont-tell-you-about-getting-older-an-insiders-survival-manual-for-outsmarting-the-health-care-system-9780143120087","title":"What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older: An Insider's Survival Manual for Outsmarting the Health-Care System","description":"Aging well frequently involves feeling your way blindly through a complex medical world: dealing with multiple doctors, facing baffling financial decisions, and figuring out whether you or a parent needs care outside the home. \u003ci\u003eWhat Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older\u003c\/i\u003e turns the lights on, illuminating potential pitfalls and showing a way around them. This book is an indispensible survival guide, gathering all the information you need to have but that too often doctors just don't give you. Writing with great experience and good humor, renowned geriatrician Mark Lachs explains how to choose your doctors, stay out of the emergency room, plan financially for retirement, outfit your house to stay safe, and, most important, how to have as many healthy years as possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Mark Lachs is a physician, scientist, and gerontologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. His research has been published in the \u003ci\u003eNew England Journal of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Medical Association\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has appeared on \u003ci\u003eThe Today Show\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR's \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e, and in many other national and local media outlets. His numerous honors and awards include a National Institute on Aging Academic Leadership Award and a Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholarship (the country's preeminent career award in aging). He and his wife, Susan, a nurse practitioner, have three children and live in Connecticut.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844055273746,"sku":"9780143120087","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4b2ea3ec-1413-4ecf-b84d-dd32ce75dab4.jpg?v=1737308984","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-your-doctor-wont-tell-you-about-getting-older-an-insiders-survival-manual-for-outsmarting-the-health-care-system-9780143120087","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}