How Good Is Your Doctor?

By Michael Morisaki

Who you choose as your primary care physician, specifically an internist (a specialist in internal medicine that deals with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases in adults), can affect your health and life. How to make this choice is what this book is about.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 31, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543427028

Michael Morisaki

The author is a retired physician, attorney and real estate broker. He was born in 1927 on Maui where he spent his childhood in an orphanage for girls. His educational background: BS magna cum laude, Marquette University; MD with distinction, University of Michigan Medical School; JD, Loyola Law School of Los Angeles; internship, Mount Sinai Hospital, NYC; and residency in internal medicine, Mayo Clinic. He practiced medicine for 36 years in Los Angeles.In 1997, he won the annual James Clavell Literary Award for his short story, Returning Alone to Maui. He authored five novellas: MD-JD, Sex Comes in Different Packages, The Being, Childhood on Maui and The Way the Ball Bounces.

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Copyright © 2017 by Michael Morisaki MD, JD.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2017908589

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-5434-2703-5

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1: Internal Medicine

Chapter 2: How Patients Choose Their Internist

Chapter 3: Where Was The Internist Educated And Trained

Chapter 4: How Should Your Doctor Treat You

Chapter 5: Are You Receiving The Proper Treatment?

Chapter 6: Second Opinions

Chapter 7: About Being An Md/Jd

Chapter 8: Examples From My Practice

Chapter 9: Doctors Have It Made

Chapter 10: How Good Is The Patient

Chapter 11: Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

First, you should ask yourself, Who is this doctor who presumes to ask this question: how good is your doctor? Let me introduce myself.

I was born in 1927 - yes, I’m ninety - in Hawaii and spent most of my childhood from age three in an orphanage in Wailuku, Maui. My parents were immigrants to Maui from Japan. They arrived in the Territory of Hawaii before the Asian Exclusion Act was passed by Congress in 1924, which banned Asians from immigrating into the United States. The restriction was relaxed in 1952 and eliminated in 1965. They chose to go their separate ways, leaving my older brother and me to grow up without parents. We lived in one of the four orphanages in Hawaii for Japanese American children. Our father revealed to me many years later that he paid for our stay there with nearly all his monthly salary. So that was the reason we were allowed to be in the Kanda Home for Girls. I wrote about my early life in my third book, Childhood on Maui. Orphanages were replaced by government-funded foster homes in the 1960s. I was raised differently from my classmates, though I cherish their friendship, and I have remained different. Now how should I begin without sounding