All Natural Mommies

This week the AMA is expected to vote on a resolution that will develop new billing codes that will label some patients as “non-compliant.”  According to the resolution:

“The stress of dealing with ungrateful patients is adding to the stress of physicians leading to decreased physician satisfaction.”  

Just who is to decide if a patient is being ungrateful?  If you request a second opinion, are you being ungrateful?  If you ask your doctor multiple questions during a visit, are you being ungrateful?  What about a laboring couple who want a natural birth, but the doctor wants to push interventions? 

Whatever happened to having a say in your own medical care?  The AMA would prefer we take their word for everything and not do our own research.  No question them at all?  Just roll over and play dead so our insurance companies (if we’re lucky enough to have coverage at all) will pay the bill.

Here’s the official response from ICAN – International Ceasarean Awareness Network.  They say it much better than I can.  Even if you’re not in the birth field, or are not planning to have a baby soon, you should still be very concerned about this proposed resolution.

http://www.ican-online.org/

President Obama is scheduled to speak to the AMA tomorrow.  Let’s pray that he can talk some sense into this group of self-serving individuals.  They do not have the patients’ best interest in my – only their own pocketbooks. 

Here’s a letter from one sensible doctor about the AMA stance on the proposed healthcare reform.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-chris-mccoy/dear-ama-i-quit_b_214318.html

Hopefully, there are more doctors like Dr. McCoy than doctors who will vote for this non-complant resolution.

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