Physicians and advocacy

The Physicians Advocacy Institute: helping physicians face medical audits.

Introduction The Physicians advocacy institute (Pai) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(6) advocacy organization established in 2006 with funds from settlement agreements in the multidistrict litigation (mDl) class action against major national for-profit health insurers. Pai’s board of Directors is comprised of Ceos of medical societies involved in the mDl and a physician who was a named plaintiff in ...

Public roles of US physicians: community participation, political involvement, and collective advocacy.

CONTEXT Whether physicians have a professional responsibility to address health-related issues beyond providing care to individual patients has been vigorously debated. Yet little is known about practicing physicians' attitudes about or the extent to which they participate in public roles, which we defined as community participation, political involvement, and collective advocacy. OBJECTIVES ...

Advocacy.

descriptif Patient advocacy by rural emergency physicians after major service cuts : the case of

Efforts at cost containment through regionalization have led to reduced services in several rural emergency departments (EDs) in Canada. As a result, questions have been raised about patient safety and equitable access to care, compelling physicians to advocate for their patients. Few published reports on physicians’ advocacy experiences pertaining to rural EDs exist. We describe our experience...

Let the children go - advocacy for children in detention by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Nelson Mandela’s words, “there can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children”, should give Australian immigration policymakers pause.1 The evidence is in, and it’s irrefutable — Australia’s detention of asylum seekers is harmful to both adults and children, and children are often scarred for life by their experiences.2,3 Detained children experienc...