The Gardiner Gazette, Fall 2013
New Book Is A Cure For Medical Disorganization
is also designed to help you focus on your wellness—not just your health challenges.
by Fred Mayo
Every once in a while along comes a book that opens our minds to new experiences or new ways of organizing experiences and brings richness to our daily lives. Gardiner resident Puja Thomson’s My Health & Wellness Organizer: An Easy Guide to Manage your Healthcare—and Your Medical Records is such a book and a very timely one for many of us that are getting older. This book provides you with words of advice, well organized workbook pages and many friendly suggestions. It is available in a three-hole-punched workbook ready to place into a three ring notebook, or in a bound version with three-holepunched pages and is organized into six major sections: My Yel-
low Pages; Decisions, Decisions, Decisions; My Medical Appointments; Following Up After Appointments; Bills, Insurance and Legal Records; and My Reference Library— all of them designed to help you through the complexities of managing your health, your tests, and your visits to medical professionals.
Building on her very successful My Hope & Focus Cancer Organizer, Puja has created a manual to help all of us with the myriad challenges of maintaining records. As she says, “Disorganization is really bad for your health; being organized can take some of the stress out.” And this book provides many ways to reduce stress:
Drawing on her experience dealing with doctors and other medical professionals and needing to create a support tool for herself, Puja Thomson has developed a system that organizes your office visits, your activities, and the important information that you need to have in one place so that you can retrieve it when you need it. It
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• It encourages you to record your doctors’ addresses, phone numbers, emails, and the names of their receptionists, nurses and technicians • It motivates you to prepare for each visit to a health professional • It structures your recording of what the professional tells you, and • It reminds you to write down what you need to do after each visit (something some of us may forget to do). Book...continued page 16..
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