Rochester General Health System
FREE Excerpt From Newly Released Book, "Top 5 Questions to Ask Your Doctor"
Rochester General Health System healthcare providers Jim Sutton, PA and Sagar Nigwekar, MD have just released an informative, patient-friendly book titled, "Top 5 Questions to Ask Your Doctor." The book, now available in paperback, offers patient strategies to help you benefit the most from your office visit.
For a FREE preview of the book, "Top 5 Questions to Ask Your Doctor," please fill out the simple form below. Upon receipt, you will be directed to a page with the free excerpt, along with information on how to purchase the book.
About the Book
Every minute of every day, in thousands of doctor’s offices across the country, there is information people should know about their medical condition that is not being discussed. People often forget key questions or sometimes don’t even know the right questions to ask. Top 5 Questions to Ask Your Doctor alleviates that problem for any patient.
Categorized by medical condition, this invaluable reference guide is based on questions submitted and reviewed by hundreds of primary care doctors, specialists, nurses, medical students and patients. If these simple questions are asked at the time of a medical visit, patients will walk away knowing more and being more confident about their health.
About the Authors
Jim Sutton has been a practicing Family Practice Physician Assistant for 23 years. He graduated from the University of Washington Physician Assistant program in 1987 and completed a residency in Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine in 1993. He has spent his career serving vulnerable patients in Los Angeles, the Middle East and now in urban Rochester, New York, for Rochester General Health System. He is an Adjunct Clinical Professor for Rochester Institute of Technology and teaches Physician Assistant students in family medicine at Clinton Family Health Center in Rochester.
Sagar Nigwekar is a practicing Board Certified Internal Medicine physician at Rochester General Hospital. He graduated from the University of Mumbai, India, in 1999 and subsequently completed his post-graduate training at the Rochester General Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program. He was Chief Medical Resident at Rochester General Hospital in 2005. Since then he has been teaching medical students and resident physicians at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He has recently been selected to join Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital Nephrology Division (Harvard Medical School). He also conducts translational and clinical research in the areas of hypertension and kidney disease.
