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If you were jailed on felony charges,
facing up to 20 years without parole, would you be willing to go up
against a complex legal system without the help of a professional who's
obligated, above all else, to protect your individual rights
and welfare, and to see that you have the best possible chance to prove
your innocence?
Then why should you be willing, if you're struck by a serious
illness, to go up against a hostile health
care system all alone, without a knowledgeable professional at your
side who is as obligated as any attorney to take your part?
Traditionally, physicians are
supposed to fill the same advocacy role for their patients that lawyers are expected to fill for their clients. Yet today, that
traditional doctor-patient relationship is being systematically
destroyed, and neither patients nor their physicians are taking to
the ramparts.
As part of our mission to help you
understand and survive the American health care system, YourDoctorintheFamily.com
documents
the programmed destruction of
the doctor-patient relationship, and offers you some help in
dealing with this growing problem.
We also can
help you
in choosing a doctor who
is reasonably likely to take your part when you need her. And
we give you hints on how you can help revitalize
your doctor's beaten-down professional instinct to take on the
role of your advocate.
We at YourDoctorintheFamily.com
believe
it inevitable that, if doctors are no longer able to act as
patients' advocate, then a new profession will soon assert itself to
provide that service to patients. We have the audacity to propose
such a new profession (the Personal
Health Care Advocate), and to start it on its way with a new set
of fundamental ethical principles.
Don't thank us. It's what we do.
We're your
on-line guide to understanding and
surviving the American health care system.
YourDoctorintheFamily.com
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