Recommended Reading
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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PATIENT SAFETY

by Dr. Julia A. Hallisy (Paperback – Nov 26, 2007)
Susan McIver PhD & Robin Wyndham RN

Patrick Malone

Trisha Torrey

(LANGE Clinical Medicine) by Robert Wachter (Paperback – Oct 5, 2007)

by Robert M. Wachter and Kaveh Shojania (Hardcover – May 10, 2005)

(J-B AHA Press) by Julianne M. Morath RN MS, Joanne E. Turnbull PHD, and Lucian L. Leape (Hardcover – Dec 29, 2004)

by Committee on Quality of Health Care in America and Institute of Medicine (Hardcover – Jul 18, 2001)

by Carolyn Oliver M.D. (Paperback – Dec 9, 2008)

by M.D. Alan B. Ettinger and M.D. Deborah M. Weisbort (Paperback – Aug 10, 2004)

by Thomas A. Sharon (Paperback – Sep 17, 2003)
HEALTHCARE REFORM

by Regina Herzlinger (Hardcover – Jun 1, 2007)

by Tom Daschle, Jeanne M. Lambrew, and Scott S. Greenberger (Paperback – Aug 18, 2009)

by Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh (Hardcover – May 2003)

by Robert M. Wachter and Kaveh Shojania (Hardcover – May 10, 2005)

by Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, Linda T. Kohn, and Janet M. Corrigan (Hardcover – April 15, 2000)

by Charles Kenney (Hardcover – Jul 21, 2008) – Bargain Price

by Jonathan Cohn (Paperback – May 6, 2008)

by Donald M. Berwick, A. Blanton Godfrey, and Jane Roessner (Paperback – Oct 15, 2002)

by Maggie Mahar (Hardcover – May 9, 2006)

by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Victor Fuchs (Paperback – May 26, 2008)

by Regina Herzlinger (Paperback – April 30, 1999)

by Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (Hardcover – May 25, 2006)

by Robert H. LeBow and C. Rocky White (Paperback – Jul 10, 2007)

by J. Patrick Rooney and Dan Perrin (Hardcover – May 2, 2008)

by George C. Halvorson (Hardcover – Aug 17, 2007)

by Arnold Kling (Paperback – May 25, 2008)

(Hastings Center Studies in Ethics) by Virginia A. Sharpe (Hardcover – Sep 7, 2004)

by Barbara Gail Kimberlin-Murphy (Paperback – Dec 11, 2008)

by Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh

by Michael Millenson
MEDICAL ERRORS/INFECTIONS

Patrick Malone

(Michigan Forum on Health Policy) by Marilynn M Rosenthal and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe (Hardcover – Jul 1, 2002)

by Nancy Berlinger (Paperback – Sep 13, 2007)

by Karin Janine Berntsen (Hardcover – Oct 30, 2004)

(Norton Paperback) by Sandra M. Gilbert (Paperback – Mar 1, 1997)

by Kathleen Motacki (Paperback – Oct 20, 2008)

by M.D. and Linda Richards, R.N., M.B.A. Melinda Ashton (Paperback – Jul 6, 2006)

by Sheldon Cohen (Paperback – Mar 28, 2007)

by Richard N. Podell and William Proctor (Paperback – Jul 16, 1996)

By Rosemary Gibson
PATIENT EMPOWERMENT

by Dr. Julia A. Hallisy (Paperback – Nov 26, 2007)

Trisha Torrey

by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz (Paperback – Feb 10, 2006)

by Thomas R., M.D. Russell, and Thomson Healthcare/American College of Surgeons (Paperback – Jan 1, 2008)

by Patrick Malone (Paperback – Jul 6, 2009)

by Jari Holland Buck (Paperback – Nov 1, 2007)

by Sheldon P. Blau and Elaine Fantle Shimberg (Paperback – Jul 2, 1998)

by Shannon Brownlee (Paperback – Sep 2, 2008)

by Dr. Mark E Meaney (Paperback – April 1, 2007)

by Jerome Groopman (Paperback – Feb 27, 2001)

(Lynn Sonberg Books) by Gail Van Kanegan and Michael Boyette (Paperback – Jan 15, 2002)

by Tiffany Christensen (Paperback – Oct 4, 2007)

(Capital Cares) by Mark Pettus (Paperback – Oct 2004)

by Jessie Gruman (Paperback – Jan 23, 2007)

(Patient-Centered Guides) by Nancy Keene (Paperback – Jul 29, 1998)

by Nancy L. Snyderman M.D. (Paperback – Feb 24, 2009)

by Laura W. Nathanson (Paperback – May 8, 2007

by John James Ph.D (Paperback – Jul 12, 2007)

by William C Thiel (Paperback – April 15, 2007)

by Lynn M. Dannheisser and Jerry M. Rosenbaum (Paperback – Mar 3, 2005)

by Davis Liu and M.D. (Hardcover – Dec 29, 2007)
PHARMACEUTICALS

the Multi-Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Companies by Terence Young (Hardcover – Mar 28, 2009)

by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels (Paperback – Jun 22, 2006)

by Marcia Angell (Paperback – Aug 9, 2005)

by Melody Petersen (Paperback – Mar 3, 2009)

by Fran Hawthorne (Hardcover – Feb 25, 2005)

by Michael T. Murray (Hardcover – Jun 30, 2009)
COMMUNICATION

Patrick Malone

James Sutton RPA-C, Sagar Nigwekar MD

by Doug Wojciezac

by Kerry Patterson

by Patricia Agnew

by Carol J. Taylor, et al.
MEDICAL PROFESSION

by David Watts, MD
END-OF-LIFE

by Bart Windrum