Your Life Depends on It, Talya MironShatz PhD
Your Life Depends on It, Talya MironShatz PhD
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Your Life Depends on It
What You Can Do to Make Better Choices about Your Health

Author: Talya Miron-Shatz PhD

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/29/2022

Synopsis

A top expert on decision-making explains why it’s so hard to make good choices—and what you and your doctor can do to make better ones.In recent years, we have gained unprecedented control over choices about our health. But these choices are hard and often full of psychological traps. As a result, we’re liable to misuse medication, fall for pseudoscientific cure-alls, and undergo needless procedures.In Your Life Depends on It, Talya Miron-Shatz explores the preventable ways we make bad choices about everything from nutrition to medication, from pregnancy to end-of-life care. She reveals how the medical system can set us up for success or failure and maps a model for better doctor-patient relationships.Full of new insights and actionable guidance, this book is the definitive guide to making good choices when you can’t afford to make a bad one.

About Talya Miron-Shatz PhD

Talya Miron-Shatz, PhD is a senior fellow at the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest in New York, a professor at Ono Academic College in Israel, and a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge. She has worked at Princeton University, taught at Wharton, and regularly consults for major pharmaceutical and health companies. She is married, has three children, and divides her time between Jerusalem, Cambridge, and New York.

About Coleen Marlo

Coleen Marlo is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator who has been nominated for an Audie Award twice, winning in 2011. She has been awarded three Listen-Up Awards from Publishers Weekly, an AudioFile Audiobook of the Year Award in 2011, and was named Audiobook Narrator of the Year for 2010 by Publishers Weekly. She is a member of the prestigious Actors Studio and taught acting for ten years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. Marlo is a proud founding member of Deyan Institute of Voice Artistry and Technology.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alicia

I honestly forgot most of this book immediately after reading it and had to skim the whole thing again. I was honestly expecting more along the lines of what to do to take care of your health and reverse illness. That's not really what this book is about. It's more along the lines of how to speak up......more

Goodreads review by Carryl

Not what I hoped for. Good advice for navigating the medical sickness industry though. Disclosure: I received an ARC for my honest opinion.......more

Goodreads review by Ell

What an interesting book! What I like about this book is that the author takes the time to explain what is wrong with the medical system without attacking it, scaremongering, or relying on exaggeration. The tips in this book are useful to all of us, regardless of age, gender, or medical condition. I......more

Goodreads review by Sashka

A very important topic but also, a controversial one in a sense that there are many people out there who have no clue what to do with medical information when they are suffering from a disease. They are already struggling with the difficultness and a lot of pressure, sometimes they can experience so......more

Quotes

“Offers clear and simple guidance and solutions that can be implemented by the three relevant actors: patients, health-care providers, and the health-care systems.” British Medical Journal

“Suggests ways to foster a good doctor-patient relationship. Along the way, she digs into the factors behind patients’ medical decision-making, such as confirmation bias, and investigates how choices are presented to patients.” Publishers Weekly

“A work that is not only easy and exciting to read but full of insights.  She includes tips for each of us as health consumers and decision makers as well as for leaders and policy makers…A must-read.” Joseph Kvedar, MD, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

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