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AHRQ Director Helps Consumers Navigate the Health Care System in a New Advice Column on the Web

AHRQ Director Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., offers advice to consumers in new, brief, easy-to-understand columns.  The biweekly columns will help consumers better navigate the health care system.  Select to read Dr. Clancy’s advice columns.

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