Patient Safety Newsletter from Patrick Malone
- Preventive Care: What Works? What Do I Need to Stay Healthy? (One of a series: Becoming a Smarter Consumer of Health Care in 2010)
- August 2010
- The Shingles Vaccine: A Small Hassle Now to Prevent Much Misery Later
- What Every Adult American Needs: A Simple List of Preventive Medical Care that Works
- Not on the List: The Executive Physical or Expensive Scans
- When Less Is More for Treating Back Pain and Heart Disease (One of a series: Becoming a Smarter Consumer of Health Care in 2010)
- July 2010
- Simple Is Best for Most Back Surgeries
- Many Unneeded Heart Stents
- A Postscript: People Like Us
- Understanding Numbers in Medicine: Easier than You Might Think, and More Important Too
- June 2010
- Count the Patients If You Want to Know the Real Scoop
- How to Read Numbers: The Tamoxifen story
- A New Approach: The "Drug Facts" Box
- How Do You Find The Best, Safest Hospital?
- April 2010
- How to look for the Right Hospital
- Check Out What Other Patients Have Said on the Medicare Website
- More Resources
- The Dilemma of Modern Medical Care: More Is Not Always Better
- March 2010
- Lessons from Heart Attack
- Removal of a Healthy Breast
- Cancer Screening
- Experience Counts: What you need to know before choosing a surgeon
- January 2010
- Practice Makes Perfect: Essential Knowledge for Anyone Facing Surgery or Any Medical Procedure
- Finding the Answers on Your Surgeon's Experience
- Your Legal Right to Know Your Surgeon's Experience
- A New Start for 2010: Becoming a Smarter Consumer of Health Care
- January 2010
- Conflicts of Interest: Why Should Patients Care?
- The First Step: It Gets Easier
