THE PATIENT’S GUIDE TO MEDICAL TEST, explain and evaluates everything you need to know about more than 1,000 medical tests: normal and abnormal values, risk factors, pain or discomfort for each test, cost, accuracy and significance, which tests are considered outmoded, or unreliable by some authorities, byCathy Pinckney and Edward R. Pinckney, M.D., printed in1986.This item is a book6" by 9" 385 page softcover copy. This book is in good condition with some soiling and rubbing of the covers,pages are clean and tight. Chapters include: your rights in medical testing, why many medical tests are performed, defensive medicine, on being a participatory patient, risk vs. benefits, invasive vs. noninvasive tests, consequence and alternatives, costs, testing for profit, where tests are performed, patient-related causes of inaccurate test results, medications, diet, routing activates, and much, much more.Thanks for Looking. A-15Powered by eCRATER . List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.