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There are many excellent patient education and empowerment books currently available. These are some of our favorites and we will be expanding and updating this list regularly. Again, we ask your help by alerting us to books that you have found particularly helpful.
We have divided the books into specific categories to make your search more efficient. Many of the books listed were written and published by individuals from our advocate list and are invaluable resources for the public.
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Journals & Manuals
 Citizens for Patient Safety: The Patient Medical Journal
The Citizens for Patient Safety Medical Journal provides a simple and well organized format for you, or your advocate, to enter valuable information that will bolster your confidence in participating actively in the planning and execution of your care.
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The Empowered Patient - Guide to Hospital Care for Patients and Families
The Empowered Patient: Hundreds of Life-Saving Facts, Action Steps and Strategies You Need to Know
You Bet Your Life! The 10 Mistakes Every Patient Makes- How to Fix Them to Get the Healthcare You Deserve
Fatal Care: Survive in the U.S. Health System
Understanding Patient Safety (LANGE Clinical Medicine)
INTERNAL BLEEDING: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes
To Do No Harm: Ensuring Patient Safety in Health Care Organizations (J-B AHA Press)
Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
Cautious Care: A Guide For Patients: When You Know More Insider Info, You'll Get Better Care
The Essential Patient Handbook: Getting the Health Care You Need - From Doctors Who Know
Protect Yourself in the Hospital: Insider Tips for Avoiding Hospital Mistakes for Yourself or Someone You Love
The Savvy Patient's Tool Kit: Your Comprehensive Guide to Better Health Care
Who Killed Health Care?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and the Consumer-Driven Cure
A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care
Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis
Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of the Medical Mistakes that Kill and Injure Millions of Americans
To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System
The Best Practice: How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price
Curing Health Care: New Strategies for Quality Improvement
Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much
First Do No Harm: The Cure for Medical Malpractice
Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America
Market-driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses In The Transformation Of America's Largest Service Industry
If Disney Ran Your Hospital: 9 1/2 Things You Would Do Differently
Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
Health Care Meltdown: Confronting The Myths and Fixing Our Failing System
America's Health Care Crisis Solved: Money-Saving Solutions, Coverage for Everyone
The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
Health Care Reform Now!: A Prescription for Change
Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care
Accountability: Patient Safety and Policy Reform (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics)
Secrets Revealed By A Medical Collector, The Patient's Guide to Avoiding Bankruptcy
The Treatment Trap: How the Overuse of Medical Care Is Wrecking Your Health and What You Can Do to Prevent It
Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age
Medical Errors and Medical Narcissism
Medical Error: What Do We Know What Do We Do (Michigan Forum on Health Policy)
After Harm: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness
First, Do No Harm
The Patient's Guide to Preventing Medical Errors
Wrongful Death: A Memoir (Norton Paperback)
Silent Medical Errors: How to Keep You and Your Family Safe in the Healthcare System
Nothing About Me Without Me: A Practical Guide forAvoiding Medical Errors
Navigating the Healthcare Maze: What You Need to Know
Medication Errors
The Patient's Guide to the Complete Medical Examination and the Prevention of Medical Errors
Patient Power: How to Protect Yourself from Medical Error
Taking a Stand
Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of the Medical Mistakes that Kill and Injure Millions of Americans
Josie's Story: A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe
How to Survive Your Doctor's Care
You: The Smart Patient: An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best Treatment (Paperback) (Large Print)
I Need an Operation...Now What? A Patient's Guide to a Safe and Successful Outcome
The Life You Save: Nine Steps to Finding the Best Medical Care-and Avoiding the Worst
Hospital Stay Handbook: A Guide to Becoming a Patient Advocate for Your Loved Ones
How to Get Out of the Hospital Alive: A Guide to Patient Power
Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Second Opinions: Eight Clinical Dramas of Decision Making on the Front Lines of Medicine
How to Survive Your Hospital Stay: The Complete Guide to Getting the Care You Need--And Avoiding Problems You Don't (Lynn Sonberg Books)
Sick Girl Speaks!: Lessons and Ponderings Along the Road to Acceptance
The Savvy Patient: How to Get the Best Health Care (Capital Cares)
AfterShock: What to Do When the Doctor Gives You--Or Someone You Love--a Devastating Diagnosis
Working with Your Doctor: Getting the Healthcare You Deserve (Patient-Centered Guides)
Medical Myths That Can Kill You: And the 101 Truths That Will Save, Extend, and Improve Your Life
What You Don't Know Can Kill You: A Physician's Radical Guide to Conquering the Obstacles to Excellent Medical Care
A Sea of Broken Hearts: Patient Rights in a Dangerous, Profit-Driven Health Care System
108 Days
A Promise Fulfilled: One Couple's Journey Through Misdiagnosis, Breast Cancer and Advocacy
Navigating the Healthcare Maze: What You Need to Know
What's Wrong with Me? The Frustrated Patient's Guide to Getting an Accurate Diagnosis
Stay Healthy, Live Longer, Spend Wisely: Making Intelligent Choices in America's Healthcare System
Josie's Story: A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe
Death by Prescription: A Father Takes on His Daughter's Killer - the Multi-Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Companies
Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
Drugs: From Discovery to Approval
Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs
Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat
What the Drug Companies Won't Tell You and Your Doctor Doesn't Know: The Alternative Treatments That May Change Your Life--and the Prescriptions That Could Harm You
Top 5 Questions to ask Your Doctor: Important questions your doctor wants you to ask about your medical condition
Sorry Works!: Disclosure, Apology, and Relationships Prevent Medical Malpractice Claims
Crucial Confrontations: Tools for talking about broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know
What to Ask the Doc: The Questions to Ask to Get the Answers You Need
How to Talk to Your Doctor: Getting the Answers and Care You Need (The Best Half of Life)
Impact of Communication in the Healthcare Field:: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
Bedside Manners: One Doctor's Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters Between Patient and Healer
How Doctors Think
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital
Intern: A Doctor's Initiation
When Doctors Become Patients
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Vintage)
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
Notes from the Waiting Room: Managing a Loved One's End-of-Life-Hospitalization (includes Choosing End-of-Life Care Without Hospitalization)