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This Patients Are Powerful website is designed to walk you through the varied steps to patient empowerment. Most popular are our online printable sample letters to help you challenge your HMO for better care. You can "Request a Copy of YOUR Medical Records", "Request to See a Specialist", "Get a Second Opinion", "Choose Your Hospital", and "Get the Right Prescription Medication". Additionally, we can help with our HMO "Not Medically Necessary" or "Not a Covered Benefit" challenge sample letters. Finally, Patients Are Powerful provides Free Legal Advice in all areas of medical malpractice and a special "Injured at Work" link among our many services.

Thanks for visiting our non-profit website. Please take some time to look around at all the services we offer, always free of charge. We welcome your feedback. We exist as an organization only on the generous support of our visitors and sponsors. If you like what we offer please consider a simple donation to our cause and definitely tell a friend that we exist. All to often, spouses and caregivers are overwhelmed with the illness of a loved one. Help them get the timely and quality care they desire. Empowered patients get much better medical care… Welcome to Patients are Powerful.

MOST Important Steps to Patient Empowerment:

SEE a Specialist
Doctors who practice specialist medicine are often more educated and have more experience on the latest approaches to treat your illness. Empowered Patients demand specialty care when it's appropriate!
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REQUEST a 2nd Opinion
We often allow only one opinion for our medical care. Empowered Patients demand to have a second opinion when faced with major medical decisions.
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GET The Drug You Need
Over 90% of all medical appointments conclude with a diagnosis and a prescription for drug therapy. Empowered patients demand the best pharmaceutical products to treat their illnesses.
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FREE Medical Legal Advice
Errors can and do happen in the practice of healthcare, often with tragic results. According to the Institute of Medicine, medical errors kill between 48,000 to 100,000 persons each year.
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