"The Empowered Patient" enables patients and their loved ones to successfully navigate complex medical delivery systems.

The book's goal is to encourage, embolden and enlighten medical consumers and their advocates to proactively participate in their own medical treatment, which will lead the health care community into an era of increased safety and accountability.

Written by Dr. Julia Hallisy, the book's ten chapters focus on numerous patient safety issues.

Each chapter identifies a different health care challenge and provides easily comprehensible and very specific action steps to empower all medical care recipients.