Alison Bass

Alison Bass is the author of Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and A Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, the true story of two women - a prosecutor and a whistleblower -- who exposed the deception behind the making of a blockbuster drug....

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Assertive Patient, The

A Guide to Speaking Up When You Are Dissatisfied With A Health Care Experience Health Care For All's Consumer Health Quality Council aims to promote patient safety and quality of health care. Part of this work involves sharing information on...

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Bedside Advocates

The mission of Bedside Advocates is to provide volunteer physician, nursing, other health professional and experienced lay advocates for patients and their families in a variety of venues and in transition between them. Their role is to alleviate...

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Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction

In November 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a safety report, "To Err is Human", which estimates that 2.9-3.7% of US hospitalizations result in adverse events, and 44,000-98,000 hospitalized patients die annually due to medical errors....

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Carlat Psychiatry Blog - Promoting Honesty in Medical Education

THE CARLAT BLOG VERSUS THE CARLAT REPORT This is NOT The Carlat Psychiatry Report. It is "The Carlat Psychiatry Blog." Here are the differences: The Report is a peer-reviewed, non-industry biased, CME publication. The Blog is not...

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CommonHealth - Reform and Reality

Massachusetts is the leading laboratory for health care reform in the nation, and a hub of medical innovation. From the lab to your doctor’s office, from the broad political stage to the numbers on your scale, we’d like CommonHealth to to be...

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Daniel Carlat, M.D.

A Profession in Crisis - 15 Minutes + a Pill are Not Enough. Learn Why. Order the book: Unhinged - The Trouble with Psychiatry: A Doctor's Reflections about a Profession in Crisis, by Daniel Carlat. OVERVIEW IN THIS STIRRING AND BEAUTIFULLY...

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e-Patient Dave -- the Voice of Patient Engagement

“e-Patient Dave” deBronkart was diagnosed in January 2007 with Stage IV, Grade 4 renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer) at a very late stage. His median survival time at diagnosis was just 24 weeks; with tumors in both lungs, several bones, and...

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e-patients.net -- because health professionals can't do it alone

This blog is a project of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Our founder, "Doc Tom" Ferguson (1943-2006) coined the term e-patients to describe individuals who are equipped, enabled, empowered and engaged in their health and health care...

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Ellen in Medicaland

A memoir of Ellen's off-the-wall experiences as a caregiver and a patient at a Harvard-teaching hospital, Ellen In Medicaland tells of the insanity that Ellen and her mother endured there. You will laugh and you will cry - this is a reading...

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