challenge the doctor if they re telling you something that your gut says doesn t sound right you need to ask questions. and god bless your mom s cousin as well. he s a great man for going through this and in effect, saving your mom s life. a shoutout to colonel david cantor who donated the kidney. they are two incredible people. we wish them only, only the best. the book the empowered patient how to get the right diagnosis, buy the right drugs and get the best medical care every time. the writer, liz betd elizabeth and ramadan, breaking the fast. that picture and more coming up next in our hot shots. ask me about my tempur-pedic. ask me how fast i fall asleep. ask me about staying asleep. tempur-pedic owners are more satisfied than owners of any traditional mattress brand. ask me why someone who s never had an ache or a pain is in love with this bed. tempur-pedic. the most highly recommended bed in america.
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to get alzheimer s considering there s not much you can do to stave it off? but there is a possibility that the results of this new test will help the researchers come up with some ways to deal with alzheimer s and, perhaps, stop the onset of alzheimer s, isn t that right? yes, that s right. from a medical-science point of view and a research point of view this is huge. but from a patient-consumer point of view you got to take a step back and think, do i really want this test? especially if there s nothing you can do to stop it in the interim. let s talk about your book the empowered patient. you wrote this book, in part, because of a personal experience that you and your family went through, elizabeth. share that with us. that s right. a few years ago my mother was having health problems and she was misdiagnosed and that s why i wrote this book. my mother, sheila schwartz, is a firecracker. mother of four, grandmother of 11, wife, lawyer and social
getting the best care at every appointment? there is a new book. it s called the empowered patient and has some answers for you. the book is written by our own senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen and is based on her weekly column empowered patient. she joins me now. so good to see you. congratulations by the way. thank you. let s see the book. here it is right here. i haven t read it yet. i got to sign one for you. this is quite an issue to tackle because there are so many questions. we ve been dealing with health care. what made you want to take on this issue? you know a couple experiences in my family. my mother when she was about 60 went from being very healthy and feeling great to not feeling very well at all and her blood pressure started sort of doing strange things. she went to her doctor and said, this is very odd for me. he basically patted her on the head and said, you just need to stop working so hard and didn t really investigate the cause. there s my mom
some encouraging news about a disease that impacts millions around the world and their families. alzheimer s. and joining us now are our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen, the a thor of the brand new book entitled the empowered patient. this is a critically important and a life-saving book that we re going to talk about, elizabeth, in just a moment. i want to talk about some of the news of the day. apparently, there s a new test that can pretty accurately predict whether someone will get alzheimer s? yes, wolf. this is a huge advancement. up until now there wasn t a way to predict who would get alzheimer s. researchers gave people spinal taps. get the fluid out by putting a needle in their back. they found in certain proteins were in the fluid that person had a much higher risk of developing alzheimer s later in life. as usual, we need to catch up with new technology. the question is if this test becomes widely available, do you want it? do you know that you re likely