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Full Table of Contents
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Abbreviated
Table of Contents
Home Page
Patient Safety
Silence vs
Safety
Silenced
White wall
of Silence
Silencing
Conflict Of
Interest
Psychology of
Providers
Subjectivity
Blacklisting
Nurse survey
Loyalty
Mobbing and
bullying
Trust Us
Defensive
documenting
Report Rate
Risk
managemnt
SOAP
Management
Hospitals
Crime in
medicine
Sexual Abuse
Liability
Limitations
Free Speech
for Patients
Exploitation
OSMB Medical
Boards
Mammography
solutions
Medical errors
Medical
Complaints
One number
Links
Injured patients who want to help and be heard,
click here.
Thomas Jefferson said that given the choice between
government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would choose
to have newspapers.
In medicine we have government without newspapers. Patients
cannot find out what they need to know to make informed choices. No one in
medicine records or reports the information patients need to know the most. So
patients will have to.
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AMA Called on to Denounce Patient Blacklisting
Press Release
March 5, 2004
Contact: Dan Lambe, 512-381-1111
Doug Heller, 310-392-0522, ext. 309
AMA Called on to Denounce Patient Blacklisting
Group Calls Doctor-Run Website “Moral Malpractice”
Two of the nation’s leading consumer advocacy organizations, the Foundation for
Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and Texas Watch, today called on the American
Medical Association (AMA) to denounce and disavow an emerging national trend by
doctors to deny medical care to patients who have filed a medical malpractice
claim in the past.
The groups sent a letter to AMA President Dr. Donald Palmisano today
specifically calling on his organization to renounce the creation of a new
website www.DoctorsKnow.Us that creates what amounts to a modern day blacklist
of individuals who have pursued their constitutional right to a trial by jury.
“This contemptuous disregard for the public health and the Hippocratic Oath is
moral malpractice,” the groups wrote in their letter to the AMA. “It is pure
thuggery intended to blacklist patients who have been victimized by negligence
and hurt by medical mistakes,”
This new website is the latest in a growing movement among doctors across the
nation who are denying medical treatment and ignoring their duty to patients
simply because they have turned to the courts for justice in the past.
The organizations also noted stories of doctors in Florida, Georgia and Texas
denying care to patients or patient advocates as well as communication between
New Jersey medical professionals advocating that doctors inconvenience patients
and delay care in order to highlight the medical malpractice issue.
“It is frightening to know that because a drug-addicted doctor, who was allowed
to practice medicine, caused permanent brain damage, blindness and permanent
disability in my husband during surgery, my family is on a medical blacklist,”
said Delores Romero, of Humble, Texas who along with her three children are
listed on the DoctorsKnow.US database. “Good doctors should be protecting
patients -- not drug addicted doctors.”
The organizations called the AMA’s attention to the impact their hard-line
political messaging and posturing has had on the emergence of this
vigilante-like behavior.
“The fact is, the overtly anti-patient proposals and actions of some doctors is
driven by the more refined vitriol of the AMA in its effort to take away the
rights of injured patients.”
Dan Lambe
Slack & Davis
Austin Office: (512) 795-8686
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