The Empowered Patient

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About The Book

Book Cover SmallThe 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.

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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

About Dr. Julia Hallisy

Dr. Hallisy is committed to and passionate about patient safety, and health care quality. Her personal and professional goals include giving all patients a voice in health care solutions.
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The Empowered Patient Coalition

The Empowered Patient Coalition is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization created by patient advocates devoted to helping the public improve the quality and the safety of their healthcare.
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Empowered Patient Mobile Apps

The Empowered Patient ® app assists patients, family members, and caregivers from diagnosis to discharge and beyond.
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Engaged Patients

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The goal of this joint effort by Empowered Patient Coalition and Consumers Union Safe Patient Project is to capture a snapshot of the impact of medical events from the patient’s point of view.
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