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December 26, 2005

PatientSchool.net Ushers in a New Day for Health Education Just in Time for the New Year

Physician-run PatientSchool.net offers an incredible opportunity to learn valuable skills to optimize health care while lowering health costs.

Columbia, MD (PRWEB) December 26, 2005 -- PatientSchool.net is officially launched. This dynamic one-of-a-kind Web site makes learning how to optimize health fun and interactive for everyone from the 1st grader to the senior citizen. PatientSchool.net was developed by an experienced physician and author who has spent over 12 years perfecting ways to empower patients to partner in their health care to improve their health outcomes.

Already healthy? This site helps you stay that way. The Healthy Living section provides many links to prominent sites that promote health and longevity. Yet, at some time everyone becomes ill and needs medical care, if only for a minor illness. Learning valuable patient skills now can make the difference between life and death in an emergency situation, but those skills have not been readily available to the public, until now. A prolonged illness and an exorbitant medical bill should not be the impetus for seeking out this critical knowledge.

PatientSchool.net adds a new dimension to learning about health with exciting links to online interactive health tools, news feeds featuring the most up-to-date information on many common diseases, and much more.

Visitors can take free online mini-courses to help them become savvy health care consumers, save money on health care costs, and partner in their health care like never before thereby improving the standard of the care they receive.

The Just for You Section features links to informative health sites for children and adolescents that will keep even the most fidgety youngsters excited about learning how to stay healthy. Women, men, seniors, and minorities also have their own unique pages to enlighten them on many aspects of their current and future health needs.

Health care quality assurance, health advocacy, resources for the uninsured, and end-of-life issues are also featured topics on this diverse site. There is even a link for helping others by donating to medical charities.

For those who want to take their learning to an even higher level there is a Private School for members only. Members can chat online, send blogs to others, do online assignments and submit their summary of the health assignment to our physician who will chose the best one and post it on the site to help other students understand pertinent health information, from a fellow patient’s perspective. E-zines, health articles, medical case studies (You’re the Doctor), and even member editorials are other valuable resources for members.

A crucial health tool, My Medical Journal, teaches patients how to communicate with physicians on their terms, develop and maintain a pertinent copy of vital health information, keep track of appointments and more. It is available in e-book form, in a 3-ring binder, on a flash drive, or on a floppy or compact disc.

PatientSchool.net even offers a unique line of greeting cards, Cards-4-Life. These cards take greetings cards to higher level. Whether a funny cartoon or a serious face flanks the cover, the inside contains a valuable health reminder to encourage its recipient to take an action that could ultimately save his life.

Never before have patients had access to such a wide variety of informative and intriguing health-promoting information one Web site. We are confident that PatientSchool.net will bridge many gaps in our complicated health care system and enable the public to take a far more active role in their own health care that they ever imagined.


Contact:
A.M.Hester, M.D., Founder
443-414-8182
http://PatientSchool.net

Posted by Industrial-Manufacturing at December 26, 2005 04:19 AM

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