Prepared Patient
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The Prepared Patient Forum helps people find good care and make the most of it. Here’s what you’ll find on the PPF website:
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Prepared Patient is a series of monthly print and eNewsletters intended to help Americans participate more fully in their health care. Each month The Prepared Patient explores a new topic to prepare readers for productive encounters with the health care system: whether understanding the need for check-ups, to managing their own chronic diseases, to getting the most value from doctor-patient interactions.
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Small Steps to Big Health Change
We often give a chilly reception to the idea of going "cold turkey" when it comes to anything that has to do with changing behaviors and habits, even those that may be important for our health. And no wonder: habits become habits because they give us something we think we need. Maybe they make us feel better (hello, chocolate!) or they offer comfort, familiarity or convenience to our lives. Once we get used to doing things a certain way, the idea of changing a routine behavior can seem overwhelming. And we worry (with good reason) that we won’t be successful if we try to change our habits all at once. It turns out, the key to lasting behavior change is taking small steps.
