Patient Power: How to Protect Yourself from Medical Error

For the increasingly confused patient, this empowering, informative, and easy-to-understand guide is for patients anticipating, preventing, and overcoming common errors in medical tests, diagnoses, and procedures.

Patient Power: How to Protect Yourself from Medical Error "confronts the tough, practical issues which most popular medical guides omit or gloss over" (Dr. Gerald Lazar, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School).

William Proctor, JD, is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and has written or co-written more than 80 books, including Beyond the Relaxation Response with Dr. Benson; The Templeton Touch with Sir John Templeton; and several international bestsellers with the “father of aerobics,” Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper.