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Your Life Depends on It combines Miron-Shatz's unique perspectives on health, choice architecture, and behavioral economics to present a work that is not only easy and exciting to read, but full of insights. This book is a must-read for anyone dedicated to the task of helping us get there. -- Joseph Kvedar, MD, Harvard Medical School People who expect to stay healthy forever need not read this wonderful book. The rest of us should. With a fine combination of humor, compassion, and vast knowledge, Talya Miron-Shatz offers clear and useful guidance for the hardest decisions of life. -- Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author The past year has shown that confusion exists prominently in our medical conversations. We need a new guide to navigating these complex decisions, and psychology professor Miron-Shatz is here to provide one. -- Next Big Idea Club This is a fine and very timely book on how to improve the conversation between patients and health professionals, based on the powerful idea of shared decision-making. Full of both great stories and psychological insights, it shows how to put into practice the fundamental principle of nothing about us, without us. -- Sir David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge, author of The Art of Statistics When Talya Miron-Shatz says, Your life depends on it, she isn't kidding! The stakes for medical decision-making are so high, and the circumstances so fraught, that it's no wonder that most people feel overwhelmed. In this fascinating and engaging book, you'll learn practical strategies for navigating even the most challenging of decisions. Your Life Depends on It is not just an invaluable guide for patients; it's also a manifesto for the healthcare system. -- Danielle Ofri, MD, NYU School of Medicine, author of When We Do Harm

""A work that is not only easy and exciting to read but full of insights. She includes tips for each of us as health consumers and decision makers as well as for leaders and policy makers...A must-read."" -- ""Joseph Kvedar, MD, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital"" ""Offers clear and simple guidance and solutions that can be implemented by the three relevant actors: patients, health-care providers, and the health-care systems."" -- ""British Medical Journal"" ""Suggests ways to foster a good doctor-patient relationship. Along the way, she digs into the factors behind patients' medical decision-making, such as confirmation bias, and investigates how choices are presented to patients."" -- ""Publishers Weekly""

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Talya Miron-Shatz, PhD is a senior fellow at the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest in New York, a professor at Ono Academic College in Israel, and a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge. She has worked at Princeton University, taught at Wharton, and regularly consults for major pharmaceutical and health companies. She is married, has three children, and divides her time between Jerusalem, Cambridge, and New York. Coleen Marlo is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator who has been nominated for an Audie Award twice, winning in 2011. She has been awarded three Listen-Up Awards from Publishers Weekly, an AudioFile Audiobook of the Year Award in 2011, and was named Audiobook Narrator of the Year for 2010 by Publishers Weekly. She is a member of the prestigious Actors Studio and taught acting for ten years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. Marlo is a proud founding member of Deyan Institute of Voice Artistry and Technology.

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