Focus On Your Best Health

Navigating the healthcare system shouldn’t feel like surviving a maze. That’s why Dr. Glenda co-wrote a practical guide to help you communicate clearly, advocate confidently, and navigate the system with purpose so that you or your loved one gets the care you deserve. In her more than 30 years as a physician leader in the public and private sectors, time and again Dr. Glenda understood that her patients needed to be better educated in health literacy. This led her in 2013 to co-author Focus On YOUR BEST HEALTH: A Smart Guide To The Health Care You Deserve.

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“As someone with good to excellent health care, I was surprised that after entering the hospital with a life-threatening illness, it did not seem that I was getting the urgent medical care that my condition necessitated. It was not until a personal friend, Glenda Newell-Harris M.D., intervened that we realized I was not getting critically-needed treatment. She became an advocate for my care and I started to receive the timely and proper medical treatment my condition called for. I recommend that any person requiring medical care have a friend or family member who can ask the right questions and be an advocate on their behalf.”
John L. Burris
American civil rights attorney

About the Book

Written by two experienced physicians, Focus On YOUR BEST HEALTH is a practical guide designed to help everyday people become more informed and empowered health care consumers. Drawing from years of clinical experience across diverse settings, such as academic medicine, private practice, community clinics, and pre-paid health plans, the authors offer straightforward insights and real-world wisdom for navigating today’s complex health care system.

  • Real stories from real patients
  • Clear tips to ask better questions
  • Strategies to avoid being overlooked or mistreated
  • A must-read for caregivers and anyone with a diagnosis
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Every reader should come away with the confidence to question authority in medical settings, expect the best care, and be an active participant in managing their medical experience.

Focus On YOUR BEST HEALTH is a timeless resource that gives patients the tools to survive the ‘new normal’ of health care – all the more vital after the wake of COVID-19 left the health care system in a tailspin with higher physician and nurse shortages, patient confusion over coverage and plans, and communication gaps between health care providers, patients and their families. It places patients at the center of an unruly medical universe and provides them with the knowledge to make smart choices about their health care, allowing them to experience clinical outcomes of the best kind.

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Focus On YOUR BEST HEALTH combines the attributes of sound coaching and the practical value of a ‘rugged guide’ to patient survival in the medical trenches.
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“About 17 percent of every GDP dollar goes to health care spending. With health care reform and attempts to cut costs, the medical maze will become more difficult to navigate. How do you get your best health care? Start by reading this down to earth guide by two experienced physicians who offer essential tips on how to ask the right questions and survive in a system that has become increasingly complicated.”
Dr. Julianne Malveaux
President Emerita, Bennett College for Women and author of Surviving and Thriving and 365 Facts In Black Economic History

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