This book contains the best practices to help you make the right choices about your health. In recent years, we have gained unprecedented control over our own health. The patient is no longer a passive participant in events; he can make his own choice about how and with what to be treated and whether to be treated at all. However, this can be very difficult due to many psychological traps and distortions: there is a lot of information freely available, and we often don’t know who to believe or trust the wrong sources. As a result, we undergo unnecessary procedures, become overly medicated, or succumb to pseudoscientific treatments. In this book, Talia Miron-Schatz explores what guides our choices—from diet to medications to pregnancy to surgery. It shows how the medical system can set us up for success or failure and how to optimize the doctor-patient interaction model.