To these days, is critic to know how to do, how to move about an hospitalization for you or your loved ones.

This is a text about the real topic, coming from a persona skilled on it,

Very needed and recommended

I definitely recommend this book for everyone so they know how to advocate for themselves when they're at the hospital. There are plenty if useful tips you can implement in your next hospital visit for different cases whether you're at the emergency unit or elsewhere.

A very interesting look at hospital admissions invaluable for anyone and everyone - after all, you never know what's around the corner.

Thank you to the author Monique Nugent MD, MPH, publishers Charm Publishers and Independent Book Publishers Association, and as always NetGalley, for an advance digital copy of PRESCRIPTION FOR ADMISSION.

In this book, Nugent provides an extremely thorough guide to how to get the most out of your hospital visit. Since this actually starts well before the point you step inside the hospital, she includes advice like keeping a current and handy record of medications, a current living directive, and even how to distinguish between needing a doctor's visit or an urgent care visit or an ER visit. She does go through a hospital visit, with and without admission, step by step, introducing different medical professionals the patient should meet along the way, and why the patient might be asked to do certain things.

This book is important for a few reasons. First and most obviously, it demystifies a very stressful process and makes it easier for patients, who need less stress, not more. Second, it gives patients a framework of expectations to operate within, so they don't feel swept through such an important encounter, so they get all they can from it, and so don't feel like they missed something. And maybe most importantly-- it let's patients know when an aspect of their care is missing. Are they being discharged from ER without seeing the doctor? This book indicates that might be incomplete care and the patient could ask to speak to the doctor who signed their discharge papers.

I can honestly say I wish I had read this book 4 days earlier, before my last hospital visit, which I'm sure would have gone very differently otherwise. For people who spend time in the US medical system, this book is a gift. For those readers who have not yet needed it for themselves, I still suggest this book-- after all, we all have elders who are getting older!

Rating: 🩻🩻🩻🩻.5 / 5 x-rays
Recommend? Definitely!
Finished: March 27 2023
Read this if:
🩺 You visit doctors/hospitals often
👵 You have aging family members
😬 You have anxiety about hospital visits
🩹 You think hospitals are like on TV
🍭 You think hospitals give out lollipops

I think this book would be a must read for anyone. I am a US citizen living in the UK and I wish I had read this a very long time ago.

I would think this book would relieve a great deal of anxiety too.

Thank you for the advanced copy of this.

This book is primarily aimed at an American audience, that aside it a well written and informative guide about admission to hospital, from staff to what expect day to day.
This has some great tips including the naming of a family member and is an invaluable guide for family members I believe.

Well written and well put together.

Recommended

Prescription for Admission is a short, comprehensive book about being in the hospital, either as a planned or emergency admission. It explains day by day what to expect from the “average” hospital stay of five days. While I think that many hospital stays are shorter than five days, the information provided about the various medical personnel encountered while in the hospital is useful, because being in the hospital can be both stressful and confusing for even the savviest patient.

The book resonated for me as I recalled the five days I spent in the hospital after falling and breaking my ankle in my backyard, and being transported to the emergency room via ambulance. What transpired in the ER, from x-rays to having my ankle reduced and splinted, was exactly as described in the book. I did spend almost a week in the hospital: I needed surgery and could not go home by myself before that happened, and, because elective surgery had just resumed after the pandemic and the surgeon I needed and wanted was extremely busy, it was not until two days after the accident that I was able to have surgery.

I wish I had had this book during this hospital stay, because after another four days in the hospital I was sent to inpatient rehabilitation, where I stayed for about ten days. I frankly don’t remember hardly any discussion at all about this - I just sort of found out that that was the plan and wasn’t really well prepared for what to expect. It was only after reading the post operative notes that I noticed a notation saying that I was to be released to intensive inpatient rehabilitation. (I could write my own book about that experience!)

In retrospect, one thing the book highly recommended was naming a friend or family member to be my liaison with the hospital, the surgeon, and the rehab facility. I was in a great deal of pain and quite frankly very traumatized by what had happened to me and was so overwhelmed by all the people talking at me that I was only able to communicate with my family, who are not local, and local friends was almost exclusively by text message. I learned later that my sisters were quite frantic and had I had the presence of mind, or this handy guide to help me, I would have made a point of creating a point person for myself.

I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I would recommend this straightforward, common sense guide to my friends and family.

Prescription for Admission
A Doctor's Guide for Navigating the Hospital, Advocating for Yourself, and Having a Better Hospitalization
by: Monique Nugent
Charm Publishing, Independent Book Publishers Association (BPA), Members' Titles
Health, Mind and Body, Nonfiction (Adult)

This book is a valuable resource for anyone who is facing a hospital stay now or perhaps in the future. The author Dr. Nugent describes what to expect during the stay and gives tips on communication throughout the stay and during discharge. The well-organized book and user-friendly book is divided into six sections covering many aspects of hospital stays and health planning.

Thank you to Net Galley and Charm Publishing, Independent Book Publishers Association (BPA), Members' Titles for the advance reader's copy. My review is my own.

I wish this was around back in 2021. That is when I was hospitalized for suicidality on September 9. While in the mental health unit. I had 2 breakthrough seizures and was transferred to the medical part of the hospital on September 12 Then I was transferred back to the mental health unit on September 15 and discharged on September 20. I was never treated the way you describe in the book. In fact, the whole time I was pretty confused about what was going on and did not feel comfortable asking questions. I felt like a prisoner. If there was a book like this out back then I would have been better informed and prepared. I think the workers in the hospitals around the country need this book too because I felt like a prisoner my whole time at the hospital in 2021. Thanks for the insight and info. Thank you also for the recommendations..

I was offered this book as an ARC via NetGalley and firstly should make it clear that this is aimed at a US audience. As a UK citizen I was intrigued as to how their system works but also whether there were any suggestions and tips that would be applicable here across the pond. Now no one likes to think that they are going to end up in hospital but as someone who has spent more than their fair share of time as an inpatient there are definitely some useful hints for the 'uninitiated'. I am naturally one of those patients that keeps all my medical records documented and prepped just in case of an emergency and generally, like the author, the medical professionals I have encountered love the thoroughness of having all their questions pre-answered. Do be aware that there may always be the odd doctor that is less keen on accepting the document and likes to go through everything on their own terms! If you are not naturally organised Nugent gives a great sample document for you to use a base draft so that the task does not feel so overwhelming. Nugent sounds like a great doctor who listens to her patients to obtain the best outcomes and I agree that it is worth remembering that not every doctor is going to be on your wavelength. There are some clear differences in the medical systems between our two countries and so you will need to factor that in however most of the documents discussed do have UK equivalents that a patient can produce/procure. I would say that if you have never been an inpatient in a hospital this book is worth a read as it does give some good advice. You probably don't intend to become a hospital inpatient but you just never know when a little knowledge of how the systems work or what acronyms like MRI etc mean will come in handy!