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What do you think about the way the book is presented?

Post by Sushan Ekanayake »

The author has talked about general practitioners, her childhood home, and her own illness while talking about health insurance plans, choosing a primary care provider, creating living wills, etc. (Chapter 1 - about her illness, chapter 2 - why she wrote this book, chapter 3 - her father's practice and her childhood)

Do you feel like this book is a collection of scattered pieces of information or do you see a logical connection in between these content? What might have been the author's intention in including all this lateral information when she wanted to talk about the 'business aspect' of healthcare system?
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I think that this book should be taken as screen shots of her life and her perspective of how things have changed for her. She wrote both sides one as a patient with her own experiences and from the side of the practitioner.
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Post by Gabrielle Sigaki »

At first, I thought that the first chapters you talked about weren't related, but after reading the entire volume, I found out that it was very helpful for me to relate to her as a common person who also needs health insurance plans because it's very common to read books that the author distances herself or himself from events, but the author here talked about her story too, making it easier to understand her motivations and to relate to the book too.
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I don't see them as scattered pieces of information. I believe that by talking about her cancer and her background, the author is seeking to be as relatable as possible before sharing her knowledge about the business aspect of the healthcare system.
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“Knowledge is power”. This proves to be true by reading the journey of a woman with a plethora of knowledge in the business of healthcare. Soon becoming a patient herself, the author made the story about her experience in the incredible difference of now being a person on the other side.This is a fantastic self-help book that was written with self love and much care and kindness. The content is Logical as I do not feel there is any evidence of scattered pieces of information at all.
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I was most intrigued about the topic on creating living wills because people rarely think about whom they want to leave their inheritance to. Moreover, I believe the concerns raised by the author are relevant in contemporary times as they are not merely scattered ideas.
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Buk Nerd wrote: 01 Jun 2021, 12:39 I don't see them as scattered pieces of information. I believe that by talking about her cancer and her background, the author is seeking to be as relatable as possible before sharing her knowledge about the business aspect of the healthcare system.
I agree with you, the fact that the author showed her story makes the book more relatable since we see that she is a common person who also needs to use the healthcare system. I thought about it because a lot of authors tend to distance themselves from the situations their non-fiction books talk about, but this isn't the case of this book.
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Suzer6440 xyz wrote: 01 Jun 2021, 23:16 “Knowledge is power”. This proves to be true by reading the journey of a woman with a plethora of knowledge in the business of healthcare. Soon becoming a patient herself, the author made the story about her experience in the incredible difference of now being a person on the other side.This is a fantastic self-help book that was written with self love and much care and kindness. The content is Logical as I do not feel there is any evidence of scattered pieces of information at all.
I hadn't thought about the self-help aspect of this book like that before reading your comment, but now I see that the author wrote this book with a lot of self-love indeed. She cares about people and loves her work, which is pretty inspirational.
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Amanda Dobson wrote: 01 Jun 2021, 11:51 I think that this book should be taken as screen shots of her life and her perspective of how things have changed for her. She wrote both sides one as a patient with her own experiences and from the side of the practitioner.
Indeed, that aspect when she talks about herself as a patient really approximates her to us, and when she talks about herself as a practitioner she gives us important arguments on the subject as something close to her job experiences. That aspect of the book is fascinating.
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REIGNING20 wrote: 02 Jun 2021, 01:19 I was most intrigued about the topic on creating living wills because people rarely think about whom they want to leave their inheritance to. Moreover, I believe the concerns raised by the author are relevant in contemporary times as they are not merely scattered ideas.
I didn't give much thought to that topic of living wills, but it's true that most people don't think about it and the lack of it can cause fights in the family too. It's interesting how this book brings so many themes that aren't directly related to your personal health, but you find out that they are actually related.
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For a single volume, I believe this book provided a lot of information. I'd want two sides of the story, one from her perspective as she deals with problems in her thoughts, and the other from the view of what's going on, the right action.
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The author presented the topic wearing two hats: as a client and as a service provider.  I think the intent is to show different perspectives.  The different angles help in understanding the complexity of the system.  It is beneficial for both parties because it provides an opportunity to align the needs of the client and what the provider can offer.
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I honestly feel the book contains scattered pieces of information. Some parts of the book is unconnected to the other. However, I see it as the author telling her story the best way she can. It's her story and she's at liberty to tell it however she wishes.
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The book's presentation is actually quite beneficial in the sense that it helps us connect to her a real person who went through childhood and everything we did. This makes the fact that cancer happened to her real and that it can happen to any one of us. It presents both perspectives and makes it more appealing and reachable rather than something that doesn't feel real.
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Post by Stephanie Runyon »

I felt that her upbringing really didn't seem like it was pertinent to the information she was trying to give. It turned the book as a type of memoir where you had to pick through it to get the full impact of it.
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