You are not immune to the confusion and anxiety that comes with having a loved one in the hospital. You must become their advocate to help them get the best treatment possible. Critical Conditions offers you a comprehensive field guide for keeping your loved one safe during their hospitalization.

You will learn to:

  Prevent deadly medical errors, medication mistakes,
    and infectious diseases.
  Reach doctors when you need them—every time.
  Be proactive as you oversee your loved one's hospital care.
  Navigate and manage the hospital system with confidence.

After multiple hospitalizations of her own family members, author Martine Ehrenclou, MA, spent hundreds of hours interviewing doctors, nurses, hospital social workers, psychologists, and other medical staff, to find clear understanding, advice, and direction. She offers you the results of her efforts in this simple and easy-to-read book. Now you can be sure your loved one will receive the best possible care in any hospital.

Martine is a writer and public relations and marketing executive, with clients that include authors, psychologists, and entrepreneurs. As past owner of Love Letters Ink, she was interviewed as the "Contemporary Cyrano" by national TV talk and news shows (Phil Donahue, Jenny Jones, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, etc.), national magazines (Time Magazine, Inc, The Economist, Glamour and others) and newspapers (The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and others.) She has had several of her stories published in bestselling books and has written for newspapers and magazines.