Doctors have a built-in advantage when it comes to getting extra-special medical care. Their knowledge and connections help them to get better faster-and avoid unnecessary risks. Now, distinguished The Today Show medical consultants and NBC News national health care reporters Drs. Kevin J. Soden and Christine Dumas provide information on:

- What tests a doctor would demand
- How a doctor picks a doctor
- What doctors know about hospitals
- How doctors make decisions about medications, physical therapy, surgery, and more
- Even doctors need a second opinion: where they go to get one
- How doctors pick a specialist
- How a doctor bounces back faster after surgery
- What doctors know about the ER
- Where a doctor gets the latest medical information-and readers can, too
- What doctors know about preventing and treating the top three killers of men and women
- What doctors know about reducing their risk of the most preventable cancers
- What doctors know about living a longer and healthier life