About the Book: The Empowered Patient

The Empowered Patient

Informing patients of their vital role in
creating a smarter, safer health care system.

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About the Book:
The Empowered Patient is a 50,000-word book that enables patients and their loved ones to successfully navigate complex medical delivery systems. The book's goal is to encourage, embolden and enlighten medical consumers and their advocates to proactively participate in their own medical treatment, which the author hopes will lead the health care community into an era of increased safety and accountability. Ten chapters focus on numerous patients' rights and patient safety issues. Each chapter identifies a different health care issue and provides easily comprehensible and very specific strategies to empower all medical care recipients. A majority of the guidelines in the book were regularly used by the author during her daughter's many hospitalizations over a 10-year period.

Review by Maggie Mahar, author and moderator of the Health Beat blog. (3/3/08) ->
Complete Review

REVIEW: Guide Rating - rating ****
The Bottom Line
The bureaucracy of American healthcare has gotten so far out of hand that patients are being injured or made sicker. In order to make it through the system successfully, gaining improved health or simply staying safe from the harm the system too often provides, patients need a handbook that explains what they need to know and what steps they can take to stay safe. Hallisy has created just such a book with The Empowered Patient. complete review
Reviewed by Trisha Torrey of everypatientsadvocate.com

Review by Karen Branz Leach of The Good Life Magazine
Through her daughter’s illness and her own scientifi c training, Hallisybecame intimately aware of theinner workings of the healthcare system,and she has put that knowledgeto good use here. Her chapter on thevarious types of doctors, nurses andhospital staff, and the role that eachplays in a patient’s care, is clear andcomprehensive. She addresses mostof the things that can go wrong in thehealthcare system, with action stepsfor the patient or family to take to preventproblems. The advice is practicaland straightforward, and concentrateson those things that really are withinyour ability to change. complete review as a PDF

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE - Introduction

CHAPTER TWO - Your Healthcare Team

CHAPTER THREE - Infection Control and Prevention: How to Fight Infection in the Hospital and at Home

CHAPTER FOUR - Medical Errors: A Threat to Public Safety – How to Protect Yourself from Harm

CHAPTER FIVE - Second Opinions

CHAPTER SIX - When Reality Does Not Meet Expectations - Communicating Your Concerns and Complaints

CHAPTER SEVEN - Medical Records: The Playbook of Your Life

CHAPTER EIGHT - Informed Consent: How to Avoid Signing Away Your Rights

CHAPTER NINE - Your Rights and Responsibilities

CHAPTER TEN - A Review of the Information and Communication Process: Prerequisites for Becoming a Proactive Patient

CONCLUSION