Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices about Your Health

by Talya Miron-Shatz PhD, Coleen Marlo (Read by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798200882250
Publisher:	Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

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.