Your Life Depends on It

What You Can Do to Make Better Choices About Your Health

By: Talya Miron-Shatz PhD

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

A top expert on decision-making explains why it’s so hard to make good choices - and what you and your doctor can do to make better ones.

In recent years, we have gained unprecedented control over choices about our health. But these choices are hard and often full of psychological traps. As a result, we’re liable to misuse medication, fall for pseudoscientific cure-alls, and undergo needless procedures.

In Your Life Depends on It, Talya Miron-Shatz explores the preventable ways we make bad choices about everything from nutrition to medication, from pregnancy to end-of-life care. She reveals how the medical system can set us up for success or failure and maps a model for better doctor-patient relationships.

Full of new insights and actionable guidance, this book is the definitive guide to making good choices when you can’t afford to make a bad one.

©2021 Talya Miron-Shatz (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

Excellent Intersection Decisions/Info Overload

Excellent understanding of how are choices may be manipulated, molded, and the importance of having a clear understanding of what happens behind a hospital's front door. Great recap on past and present research in the areas of personal preferences, nudging, and consent. It is interesting to hear/see how the literature does not tie back to personal experience. The author is also receptive to input from their readers. Highly recommend this book.