MEDICAL TUESDAY NETWORK

 Physicians, Business, Professional and Information Technology Communities

 Networking to Restore Accountability in HealthCare & Medical Practice

Del Meyer, MD, CEO & Founder
DelMeyer@MedicalTuesday.net
www.MedicalTuesday.net

MedicalTuesday refers to the meetings that were traditionally held on Tuesday evenings where physicians met with their colleagues and the interested business and professional communities to discuss the medical and health care issues of the day. As major changes occurred in health care delivery during the past several decades, the need for physicians to meet with the business and professional communities became even more important. However, proponents of third-party or single-payer health care felt these meetings were counter productive and they essentially disappeared. Rationing, a common component of government medicine throughout the world, was introduced into the United States with Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), under the illusion that this was free enterprise. Instead, the consumers (patients) lost all control of their personal and private health-care decision making, the reverse of what was needed to control health care costs and improve quality of care.

Excerpt from a recent newsletter:

In This Issue:
1. Is It Possible to Comply with so Many Health Care Mandates?
2. Is Killing Alzheimer Patients Really Humane?
3. Whatever Happened to Medical Idealism and Charity?
4. This Weeks Review of Corporate Socialized Medicine - Otherwise Known as  Managed Care - Part II
5. Medical Gluttony: HIPAA is Expensive, Protects Addicts and Prevents Quality Care
6. Medical Myths: Mammograms Save Lives.
7. Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge
8. The MedicalTuesday Recommendations for Restoring Accountability in Medical Practice, HealthCare and Government

8. MedicalTuesday Supports These Efforts of the Medical and Professional Community in Restoring Accountability in Medical Practice, HeathCare and Government

PATMOS EmergiClinic - where Robert Berry, MD, an emergency physician and internist, provides prompt care for many of the injuries and illnesses treated in Emergency Rooms at a fraction of the usual emergency room fees. Be sure to read his article on how the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is a using "Cover the Uninsured" as a ruse to promote single payer HeathCare by government mandate. Read the whole article "Health Coverage Does Not Equal Health Care" at www.emergiclinic.com.  Read Dr Berrys response to Physicians Support of Single-Payer Health Care or Socialism at http://www.delmeyer.net/hmc2004.htm#by%20Robert%20Berry.

Dr Vern Cherewatenko for success in restoring private-based medical practice which has grown internationally through the SimpleCare model network, www.simplecare.com.  Any patient or provider may become a member of SimpleCare. A number of brochures are available on line about a practice that is becoming increasingly popular. The AP article: for April 27 http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040404/D81O7R7O0.html

Dr David MacDonald started Liberty Health Group, www.LibertyHealthGroup.com, to assist physicians in controlling their own medical benefit costs for their staff and patients. There is extensive data available for your study. He is available to speak to your group on a consultative basis.

John and Alieta Eck, MDs, for their first-century approach to twenty-first century needs. With 46 million people in this country uninsured, we need an innovative solution apart from the place of employment, and apart from the government.  Please visit them at www.zhcenter.org. For their article Are you really insured? go to http://www.healthplanusa.net/AE-AreYouReallyInsured.htm.

Madeleine Pelner Cosman, JD, PhD, Esq, has made important efforts in restoring accountability in health care. Please visit http://www.healthplanusa.net/MPCosman.htm to view some of her articles that highlight the governments efforts in criminalizing medicine, and the introduction to her new book, Who Owns Your Body. For other OpEd articles that are important to the practice of medicine and health care in general click on her name at http://www.healthcarecom.net/OpEd.htm

David J Gibson, MD, Consulting Partner of Illumination Medical, Inc. has made important contributions to the free Medical MarketPlace in speeches and writings. His series of articles in Sacramento Medicine can be found at http://www.ssvms.org and additional articles such as Health Care Inflation at http://www.healthplanusa.net/DGHealthCareInflation.htm.

Dr Richard B Willner, President, Center Peer Review Justice Inc, reports his latest success story and the secret of helping doctors keep their medical license. On a daily basis, doctors are reviewed, are suspended, lose their medical licenses and go to jail on trumped-up charges. These "extra"-legal services are necessary services that your lawyer does not offer. Stay posted with a wealth of information at http://www.peerreview.org. The Center for Peer Review Justice now has a Joint Venture Partner so we can offer Headhunting for those MDs who have been DataBanked and cannot find a new job. This is a fee based service where the fee is paid by both the doctor and facility. 

Dennis Gabos, MD, President of the Society for the Education of Physicians and Patients (SEPP), www.sepp.net, for making efforts in Protecting, Preserving, and Promoting the Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities of Patients and Health Care Professionals, with a special page for our colleagues in nursing. Several free newsletters are available. Be part of protecting and preserving what is right with American HeathCarephysicians, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, all health professionals and all concerned individuals are urged to join.

Robert J Cihak, MD, former president of the AAPS, and Michael Arnold Glueck, M.D, write an informative Medicine Men column that is at NewsMax. Please log on to review the last five weeks topics or click on archives to see the last two years topics at http://www.newsmax.com/pundits/Medicine_Men.shtml. This weeks column is on "Canada's Health System Dream Turns to Nightmare and can be found at http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/6/9/113918.shtml

The Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (www.AAPSonline.org), The Voice for Private Physicians Since 1943, representing physicians in their struggles against bureaucratic medicine, loss of medical privacy, and intrusion by the government into the personal and confidential relationship between patients and their physicians. The News of the Day: Charles Thomas Sell, D.D.S, has been held in prison for nearly 7 years without trial. When the magistrate judge ordered him to be forcibly drugged with antipsychotic medication against his will, supposedly to render him competent to stand trial, he appealed to the district judge. When he lost that, he appealed to the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and AAPS filed an amicus brief in his favor. When he lost 2-1 there, he sought rehearing en banc, again with the assistance of an AAPS amicus brief. He lost 5-4 on his petition, and then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. AAPS again filed a brief in favor of the Court hearing the case. The U.S. Supreme Court finally held in his favor and stopped the forced drugging. Read the entire sordid story at www.AAPSonline.org.  Be sure to scroll down on the left to departments and click on News of the Day and then click on "Court holds hearing on Dr. Sell's motion to be tried on pending charges. - 5/31/2004." The AAPS News, written by Jane Orient, MD, and archived on this site, providing valuable information on a monthly basis. Thomas Sowell observes that in 1909, people spent less than 18 percent of their income for housing. Now that the government got into providing housing in 1937 with a rash of green tape, 28 million Americans spend more than 30 percent of their income for housing. She quotes Linda Gorman who gave other examples in natural gas, airlines, and trucking where deregulation increased volume and innovation with costs falling 30 to 40 percent. There is every reason to expected the same benefits from deregulating medicine. The net burden of regulation probably exceeds the annual cost of insuring 44 million people according to Christopher Conover of Duke University. Scroll further to the official organ, the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, with Larry Huntoon, MD, PhD, a neurologist in New York, and the Editor-in-Chief.