Health Safety
Selecting Doctors & Hospitals
What you can do to avoid medication errors
What you need to do in the
hospital
15 Steps You Can Take To Reduce Your Risk of a Hospital
Infection
Dental patients urged to ask about foreign lab use
AHRQ Director Helps Consumers Navigate the Health Care System in a New Advice Column on the Web
Bad Medicine
Recommended Reading
Overtreated: Why too much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
by Shannon Brownlee
Hooked: Ethics. the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry
by Howard Brody
How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman
Internal Bleeding: The truth behind America's Terrifying
Epidemic of Medical Mistakes
by Robert Wachter and Kaveh Shojania
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Members’ Stories
Medical error can have devastating effects. Here, in their own words, Connecticut families tell the stories of how medical error changed their lives forever.
David Parian
Unfortunately when I had a tooth extracted, I was not given an antibiotic and got an infection. My wife kept calling my doctor who said it was just the flu. Days passed and I kept getting sicker and sicker and I kept being told I had the flu ... more
To Our Members
March 2008
Within the next two years, we can anticipate changes in the delivery of health
care in our state. Several health authorities have been established by the
Governor, the Speaker of the House, Jim Amman and the President of the Senate,
Don Williams. These newly constituted authorities are to propose recommendations
that would lead CT to universal health coverage.. ... more
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