Surviving American Medicine March 11, 2013

We live in a time when the business of health care has superseded the care of health. Virtually every American is experiencing dramatic changes in the delivery of health care and the insurance programs that pay for it. In Surviving American Medicine, San Marino resident DR. CARY PRESANT lays the foundation to help people take control of these issues and become their own advocate. Learn how to access the best doctors, good insurance, safe hospitals, and affordable medicines ¬from an author and physician who has been a national expert on health care on Monday, March 11 at 7:00 p.m. at Crowell Public Library. With insights from his medical experience and reliable internet resources, Dr. Presant will give information to survive, reduce the risk of illness, and control diseases. Learn the questions to ask your own doctor that can get you the increased attention you want and need.
Cary A. Presant, M.D., F.A.C.P., has been a practicing hematologist and medical oncologist in Southern California since 1979. He was the director of cancer programs at Washington University School of Medicine, the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, Citrus Valley Health Partners, and St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles. After being Director of Medical Oncology at City of Hope National Medical Center, he started a private practice in West Covina in 1982. In 2004, he merged his Center with Wilshire Oncology Medical Group, Inc. and is currently a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine. He received his medical degree in 1966 from the State University of New York at Buffalo and completed postdoctoral training at Columbia University in New York City, the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.
You won’t want to miss this free program on how to take control of your health care.