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This is a copy of a website that as of 2006 still was located
at:
http://www.members.aol.com/carmilarms/PatientsInArms.htm
In case it disappears someday, this copy of it has been included here.
Patients In ARMS
(Advocates Reforming Medical Standards)
7480 Gravois Road
Dittmer, Missouri 63023
(636) 274-ARMS
Carmilarms@aol.com
We are a nonprofit organization founded in 1995. We work to
eradicate medical crime and patient abuse. For several years we've been
networking with medical malpractice victims, professionals, and other patients'
rights organizations around the country. Like other human rights activists, we
did not search for our cause. Our cause found us when our family was struck by
tragic, devastating medical malpractice in 1981.
We have learned a great deal in these past 17 years about the patterns of
medical crime. Patient injury and death usually begin and end with deceit. Too
many doctors withhold information from their patients. We look to them for
educated, honest medical opinion and trust them with our lives and our
children's lives. They make decisions they have no right to make about surgical
procedures and other forms of treatment that generate money for themselves,
other medical people, and hospitals but that patients and patients' guardians
would never choose or consent to if their doctors told them everything they
should know and would want to know.
If you don't have the information that would cause you to refuse to consent, the
"consent" you give is not informed. If consent is not informed, it's not legal.
After the damage is done, time is on the the side of physicians. The doctor who
injured his patient and the doctors the injured patient turns to in desperation
for help give the patient an endless run-around. They and the assistants who
witness their medical crimes falsify and destroy medical records. They alter
medical charts. They create ficticious medical histories. They drive injured,
damaged, often pain-wracked and demoralized patients deeper into iatrogenic
nightmares -- nightmares trivialized as "malpractice" but that are really human
rights abuses that amount to torture.
The principle here is: Malum in se (the act is wrong in itself; it is inherently
wrong and evil).
The physician's code of silence is dangerous and hazardous to the public's
health and well-being. The purpose of state medical boards is "to protect the
citizens of the state." But the only people medical boards protect are doctors.
No one is protecting the public from doctors.
No one is protecting us from our "protectors."
WE THE PEOPLE must come together and force these dinosaur state medical boards
into extinction.
We have gathered evidence documenting that the Missouri State Board of
Registration for the Healing Arts has deliberately sabotaged the rights of
Missouri residents to the fair and equitable hearings named in the Missouri
Healing Arts Practice Act. Eight of the Board's nine members are doctors -- an
obvious conflict of interest. (The ninth is an attorney.) The Board obstructs
justice. It ignores patients' complaints. It fails to take and refuses to take
action even when the complainant shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that medical
crimes have been and are being committed. Instead of disciplining bad doctors,
it allows them to "expire" their medical licenses, which means these bad doctors
are free to move to another state and continue abusing, raping, maiming, and
killing innocent, unsuspecting patients -- you and your loved ones.
All our efforts to expose these crimes in Missouri have only met with
railroading and stonewalling.
We are taking the evidence we've collected to Washington, D.C. We plan to arrive
Monday, November 30, 1999 and stay about a week. We will appeal to our leaders:
President Clinton, Janet Reno, and the U.S. Supreme Court. We will ask them to
do whatever is necessary to help stop the torture, maiming and other human
rights abuses in medicine. We'll appeal for honest medical treatment for
patients who are injured by their doctors, then refused care. We'll keep going
back until something is done.
We need your voice in Washington supporting our efforts. To start, we can help
protect patients from future harm by demanding that Congress pass a Patients'
Rights Bill that would protect everyone from medical predators. Tell your
legislators you want truth in medicine. We urge you to sign the petition to our
legislators to introduce and pass the
Draft of Proposed
Legislation Concerning Informed Consent and Provider Accountability.
If your representives ignore your pleas for common-sense legislation to protect
patients, contact our newly elected representative, Harold R. Selby, who said he
will be our voice in Washington for patients' rights. Talk to him and he will
speak for you.
The highest court in the land is the court of public opinion. The People have
the right to petition their government to redress their grievances. We have the
right to ask our government to fix things, even when it's our government that
needs fixing.
Keep telling your medical horror stories until our government listens.
We hope you will join us on November 30 in Washington, D.C.
Thank you for your support.
In unity, with respect and dignity for all,
Jerry and Carla Miller, Founders
Patients In ARMS
We try to answer every letter we receive. Email is much easier for us to respond
to and is more likely to get a prompt response.
We plan to add a great deal more information here, including a section devoted
to Medical Outcasts, patients who have been injured so severely by their doctors
that other doctors shun them and refuse to treat them, leaving them nowhere to
turn for the help they desperately need. If you have been the victim of this
especially damaging type of malpractice, we invite you to share your story here
(anonymously if you prefer), even if you've felt it was too horrible to tell or
that no one would want to hear it.
We've been there too. We care. We'll listen. We'll help any way we can.
LINKS
AIM (Administrators in Medicine) DocFinder
http://www.docboard.org/
Association for Responsible Medicine (ARM) http://www.a-r-m.org/
Attorneys for the Rights of the Child http://www.noharmm.org/ARC.htm
"The medical profession, which has perpetuated this tragic disfigurement of baby
boys' genitals, will be challenged by an organization of legal professionals it
cannot afford to ignore."
Circumcision Information and Resource Pages (CIRP) http://www.cirp.org/
Listed in the British Medical Journal. Recipient of the ParenthoodWeb and
NetGuide Gold Awards. The most comprehensive collection of medical journal
articles and other information about circumcision on the Internet.
Draft of Proposed Legislation Concerning Informed Consent and Provider
Accountability -- Eileen M. Wayne, MD http://www.informedconsent.org/draft.html
Episiotomy: Ritual Genital Mutilation in Western Obstetrics http://www.changesurfer.com/Hlth/episiotomy.html
FGM [Female Genital Mutilation] Research Homepage http://www.hollyfeld.org/fgm/
"I think this child has an infected penis after neonatal circumcision" Online
Pediatric Urology, April 1996 http://www.infocirc.org/fourn.htm
Informed Consent http://www.informedconsent.org/
Includes Draft of Proposed Legislation Concerning Informed Consent and Medical
Accountability, by Eileen Marie Wayne, MD
International Pelvic Pain Society http://www.pelvicpain.org/
National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC)
http://www.nocirc.org/
"NOCIRC is an organization of diverse individuals committed through research,
education and advocacy to securing the birthright of male and female infants and
children to keep their sex organs intact." The world's foremost clearinghouse
for information about sexual mutilation.
National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males (NOHARMM)
http://www.noharmm.org/
"NOHARMM is a non-profit, direct-action men's network organized against
circumcision of healthy male infants and children. Its mission is to raise men's
awareness about male anatomy and genital cutting practices and to increase their
understanding of genital integrity as a fundamental human right."
[More to be added.]
"Hospitals like bad doctors because the complications
they cause make more money for the hospital."
Medical doctor who asked to remain anonymous
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