Advocate for Your Health

A Step-by-Step Guide to Navigating Medical Visits

Henraya McGruder

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Mynd Matters Publishing
28 October 2025

Doctor patient relationship; Nursing & ancillary services; Family & health; Home nursing & caring

Navigating the healthcare system can be confusing, intimidating, and at times, deeply frustrating. With a whirlwind of appointments, prescriptions, medical jargon, and ever-changing guidance, it's easy to feel like you're just along for the ride. But here's the truth: you hold more power than you think.

In this empowering and practical guide, you'll discover how to take charge of your health by becoming a confident and effective advocate-for yourself and your loved ones. You'll learn how to prepare for medical visits, ask the right questions, track critical information, and communicate in ways that lead to clearer diagnoses and better outcomes. More than just a how-to, this book underscores a powerful message: when patients speak up, take notes, and actively participate, health outcomes improve-and health disparities can begin to shift.

Whether you're managing a chronic illness, supporting a family member, or simply seeking better care, this book equips you with tools, strategies, and mindset shifts to reclaim agency in every medical encounter. Showing up prepared and authentic doesn't just make a difference-it can change your life.

It's time to stop feeling powerless in the exam room. It's time to speak up, be heard, and get the care you deserve.

You are the most important part of your healthcare team!

By: Henraya McGruder
Imprint: Mynd Matters Publishing
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 5mm
Weight: 100g
ISBN: 9781963874624
ISBN 10: 1963874625
Pages: 68
Publication Date: 28 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

HENRAYA MCGRUDER, PhD is a former senior research scientist in the Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a retired Lieutenant Commander in the United States Public Health Services. Dr. McGruder also has over a decade of teaching experience as a professor of psychology, serving at Spelman College and Johnson C. Smith University.