The Empowered Patient Coalition provides resources enabling patients to take control of their medical treatments.

Cautious Patient is a non-profit organization which was founded in January, 2009, with the following goals:

• To help people understand the dangers and inadequate care that occur in our healthcare system—but that there are ways they can participate to make it better;
• To help patients learn to interact more in the doctor-patient relationship;
• To help people find and understand for themselves the medical information they need in order to take care of their diseases;
• To help people find and get their preventive medicine needs met; and
• To be a support system for those who have had unnecessary tragedies as a result of dangerous or inadequate medical care. 

Order the Book by Dr. Cari Oliver: Cautious Care: A Guide for Patients

http://cautiouspatient.org/