Medical Peer Review -- The Semmelweis Society

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Due Process Offers Patients A Choice of Physicians To Be Their Advocates.  At the end of the day, we are all patients; patients want safety, privacy of person and of their medical records, aas well as a choice of physicians. 

Impartial peer review could:
 
1.  Improve care through education;
2.  Allow patients a choice of physician;
3.  Reduce waste and save money--r
ationed 
care limits choice.  Managed care is not choice.  Monopoly is not choice.  The 'business model' (extracting profit for people who do not work, called stockholders) robs those who work of incentive and deprives patients of needed resources.  Why should Blue Cross sell stock or take money from patietnts to advertise on television? 
 
  The public interest is not served by destroying the careers of honest doctors. This web page discusses the injustice generated by immunity from prosecution on peer review committees.  Such immunity invites abuse whenever the judges are biased--when they have a financial interest in the outcome.   Competitors and corporations fall into the category of 'interested' parties. 

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