Take Medicine Back

03/05/2024

We created a new drink with these lovely baristas. Unsweet tea and their signature strawberry lemonade. Mitch Leslie and Kassie - the MLK Palmer

18/04/2024

If you want to learn why the first strike against Private Equity and the corporate practice of medicine by Emergency Physicians is happening today at 2:00 p.m. at St. John Ascension Hospital in Detroit against team health, owned by Blackstone

Watch the video on our homepage

The Corporate Practice of Medicine (CPoM) doctrine was conceptualized to protect the physician-patient relationship corporations placing profits over patients in the early 1900's. Most states prohibit CPoM, but they are broadly unenforced. It's time for the profession of medicine to reclaim the ethi...

18/04/2024

Turn out for this historic event.

The profession of emergency medicine and the profession of medicine is committed to standing with labor in America

Urgent – Safe Staffing Saves Lives The Physicians and PA/NP's Are Fighting for YOU! It's been 10 years of TEAMHEALTH slowly reducing costs and resources - resulting in longer wait times in the ER. These private equity owned companies all have the same playbook - reduce staffing, replace experience...

01/04/2024

Breaking: Is Private Equity in emergency medicine a threat to national security? Senate Committee investigating.

Reporting by Gretchen Morgenson of NBC News

Take Medicine Back founder Mitch Li quoted:

"The emergency department is the canary in the coal mine for the whole U.S. health care system. We are the first to see the breaking point and we are beyond that. Private equity and the corporate practice of medicine puts our nations’ ability to respond to disaster at risk.”

Link:
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/senate-questions-private-equity-hospital-emergency-departments-peters-rcna145909

01/04/2024

Physicians: One more day to join Take Medicine Back as a Founding Member

Would you like to be on the side of history restoring the profession of medicine

Join as a member: (Take Medicine Alliance membership soon for non-physician Allies)

https://www.takemedicineback.org/members/

https://www.theexaminernews.com/national-effort-brewing-to-restore-doctor-led-practice-of-medicine/

This week's Stone's Throw column on corporate-controlled healthcare features an interview with Dr. Mitchell Louis Judge Li, co-founder of Take Medicine Back.

25/02/2024

Urgent Call to Action for Physicians:

Urgent! Support HB4130 - End Corporate Medicine

ETA: Anonymous Testimony Link Added!

Industry (Insurance eg United Health, Private Equity, Big Tech) are flying their lobbyists in via private jets to kill HB 4130, a bill to end Corporate Medicine. Passage of this bill could cascade to end corporate control of physicians throughout the country. Physicians from every specialty, and every state are needed to submit testimony.
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All we need from you is 2-3 sentences on why lay-corporations should not be practicing medicine (eg. hiring and firing physicians when we advocate for patients, pushing you on "production" for external profits, determining staffing (eg how NP and PA are used), controlling or manipulating testing and interventions, billing with your license without any transparency to you.

Step 1:
Visit the OR State Legislature Website​
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Measures/Overview/HB4130

Step 2:
Select "Senate Committee on Healthcare and 2/26/2024 1:00pm and HB4130

Step 3:
Enter your info and select "Support," then "text testimony," write your message (2-3 sentences, up to 2 paragraphs), then click "Submit Testimony"

ETA: Anonymous option for commenting for those who fear retaliation is now available.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkqrqKt-MpsGYosK8sFDIwI6eTV_7djQ-Cc9_caPYZ4lPPGw/viewform

17/01/2024

US Senator Elizabeth Warren ahead of the Take Medicine Back 2024 Summit co-hosted with California American Academy of Emergency Medicine on February 10th, 20...

17/01/2024

"Let's get this done and take medicine back."

- U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren ahead of the Take Medicine Back Summit on February 10th, 2024 co-hosted with California AAEM - The American Academy of Emergency Medicine

Register now
https://www.takemedicineback.org/tmb-24-california

https://youtu.be/slFzDRBND4o

US Senator Elizabeth Warren ahead of the Take Medicine Back 2024 Summit co-hosted with California American Academy of Emergency Medicine on February 10th, 20...