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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

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.

Zack Ball
Ten years ago, Zack’s life changed forever…and so did mine.    My son’s neck was broken in a tragic head on collision.  He was sent to three different hospitals in one day and discharged and sent home three days after the accident.  We were told he would make a full recovery.  He would be that happy, bouncing two year old once again despite having to wear a halo on his head ... more