Part I. The Wants, Wishes, and Wills of Your Health and Medical Situation

You’ve heard the proverb, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” Most agree that we feel better and may be much more productive after a great night’s sleep. But what about those late-night talk show hosts? They seem healthy, they’re certainly wealthier than most of us, and while we can’t measure their wisdom, they’ve got more wisecracks than all of us combined.

Understanding your health and medical situation is much more complex than eating an apple every day or following your favorite old wives’ tales. The days of one-stop health care and relying on someone else to look out for you from birth to death are long gone. Today’s health system ...

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