Description
Book SynopsisWhether you're a freshly diagnosed patient, a woman who's been living with heart disease for years, or a practitioner who cares about women's health, A Woman's Guide to Living with Heart Disease will help you feel less alone and advocate for better health care.
Trade Review[A Woman's Guide to Living with Heart Disease] gives women the knowledge they need to become their own advocates in a health care system that continues to be weighted against them.
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Foreword ReviewsThis book brings a needed focus to a leading killer of women today and is a must-read for women and their loved ones.
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Library JournalShining a light on what is often an “invisible” illness, Thomas shares the stories of women survivors as young as twenty-six and as old as sixty-three, some who had been experiencing symptoms for as long as two years before being correctly diagnosed and treated. Her book gives women the knowledge they need to become their own advocates in a health care system that continues to be weighted against them.
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Foreword ReviewsTable of ContentsForeword, by Martha Gulati
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The First Signs
2. Deadly Delay
3. Finally, a Correct Diagnosis
4. The New Country Called Heart Disease
5. Depressing News about Depression and Heart Disease
6. I'm What a Person with an Invisible Illness Looks Like
7. One-Downmanship
8. On Being a Good Patient
9. The New Normal
10. Making Peace with an Errant Organ
Recommended Resources
Notes
Glossary
Index
