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

A Death in the Hospital

After 6 days being unwillingly made a human model for training purposes, our son Seth Speken died on August 27, 1993. His death was at the premier Ivy League teaching hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York. This Web Site is...

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Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR)

ACOR is a unique collection of online communities designed to provide timely and accurate information in a supportive environment. ACOR offers access to 159 mailing lists that provide support, information and community to everyone affected by...

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CANCER 101

CANCER101's mission is to empower cancer patients and their caregivers to take control over their diagnoses and engage them as active partners in their care, by arming them with a toolkit to navigate their cancer journey. We provide CANCER101...

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Cancer Care

Cancercare is a national nonprofit, 501 (c)(3) organization that provides free, professional support services to anyone affected by cancer: people with cancer, caregivers, loved ones, and the bereaved. Cancercare programs - including counseling and...

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Center for Medical Consumers

The Center for Medical Consumers, a non-profit 501(C)3 advocacy organization, was founded in 1976 with this philosophy: Whenever long-term drug therapy, elective surgery, or any other major treatment is prescribed, the question of whether the...

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Citizens for Medical Safety

We are activists for medical malpractice victims throughout the country who believe that change in healthcare can only be achieved by working through the political process. We strongly believe in the need for a National Medical Safety Board that...

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Consumers Union (National Organization)

Consumers Union (CU) is an expert, independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to work for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers and to empower consumers to protect themselves. The organization was founded in 1936 when...

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Global Healthy Living Foundation

Welcome to the Global Healthy Living Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization working to improve the quality of life for people with chronic diseases such as arthritis, hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, sickle cell disease,...

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It's N0T Healthy to Fail First

What is a Fail First Policy? Fail First, also called step therapy, is an approach to prescribing drugs that insists that the least expensive drug in any class be given to a patient first. If it works, then ...good! If not, then the next least...

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LeapforPatientSafety.org

We are a teamwork system made up of citizens designed to improve the quality of patient care, and efficiency of healthcare, by means of public awareness. http://www.leapforpatientsafety.org/

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