Create "The American Patient Defense Union" - You Are Not Alone

"Out of Pain, Suffering and Injustice - Power is Born"

The American healthcare establishment is increasingly dominated by a well-polished corporate culture focused on generating revenue and creating "service lines". This culture shift is frequently overriding medical ethics and patient safety.

Despite literally hundreds of thousands of American patients bearing the brunt of liability and loss to this corporate structure, the healthcare establishment itself is quite well fortified by strong legal defensive forces, well-polished marketeers and powerful lobby power at the state and federal levels.

Over the past 4 years the corruptible magnitude of corporate influence over the practice of medicine in America has clarified itself to me - as a husband-turned activist, a father, a surgeon and a citizen.

I've often wondered if individual American patients need a powerful watchdog force to defend them in a personalized way, as they navigate the healthcare maze.

There is precedent for this idea: American Laborers, susceptible to corporate abuse, have their unions. Americans susceptible to civil rights abuses have the the ACLU and NAACP.

But who defends individual patients' rights - especially those who are avoidably neglected, abused or harmed? Very certainly not healthcare corporations (or the doctors employed by them). The fox is never a trustworthy guardian of the hen-house.

Doesn't it stand to reason that individual American patients rise up to form a muscular union force to defend them from abuse, neglect and predatory corporate practices in the healthcare establishment?

IMAGINE -- The American Patient Defense Union: "You Are Not Alone"

Let's create something greater than ourselves - Let's create the patient-powered backbone needed by every American patient - Let's create a union of patients, by patients and for patients.

The Time Has Come!

Read more about this idea here: https://medium.com/@noorchashm/the-american-patient-defense-union-the-time-has-come-7818424cf1b1 Please give the union your vote of confidence and write your opinions/suggestions here. And stay tuned. More to come.