Hospital Insider Playbook w/ Checklists

Get this book! It is the only prep book aimed at teaching you how to effectively advocate for yourself and your people in a way that will enhance the care you receive. It’s brilliantly easy to understand and implement. Nurse Brian included every scenario, term and situation you might encounter and gives you the script, rational and follow-up actions that you can expect. Knowing how to conduct yourself with the medical team will facilitate respectful and timely conversations so you can understand who, what, why, when and where even if you don’t have a medical degree. This book is a manual to successfully navigate the hospital experience. Don’t walk through the doors of a hospital without it.

This book is really helping me understand hospital words and what they mean. Also what questions I need to ask. My Mother is in the hospital and I have an appointment to meet up with the doctor to discuss my mom’s care. Reading this book and taking notes on what to say is making me feel more prepared. Thank you !

From working in a hospital setting I view this book has a such a great tool!!!! Even for people who have some medical knowledge it’s so helpful when your the one on the other side and the script is turned around. You have all the question you think you want to know but don’t. The journal pages and the ask pages are so helpful and something that everyone should have when faced with a health crisis. Be prepared, be informed and be an advocate for your family and for yourself. Great job at this great book Plaintalkhealth!!!

Thank you so much for putting these together – I wish I had had them when I took care of my mom, but my husband has Parkinson’s and this is going to be very helpful to us. I want to stress that the medical teams we have dealt with have always been very professional and many very caring, but navigating the “system” is like walking into complex foreign trade negotiations without any background, and when you add the life and death aspect, you can spend the rest of your life second guessing your de