ER Docs Stand Up Against Corporate Practice of Medicine: Where's are the Pain Societies?

[drusso]

https://www.aaem.org/UserFiles/file/PressRelease-AAEM-PGFilesSuitAgainstEnvisionHealthcare.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2BwBxwb-ceGEH0kZY0Wpw1Mh3VjJt4XJEHWGfPtrgVAh9XOLW58DzAKxQ

"Issues at stake include lay influence over the patient-physician relationship, as well as control of the fees charged, prohibited remuneration for referrals, and unfair restraint of the practice of a profession. AAEM-PG and its parent organization, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, believe this arrangement is not in the public interest."

Imagine if our societies--ASPN, PSPS, SIS, ASIPP, AAPM, etc wrote statements like this:

"The AAEM Mission Statement clearly defines the right of every patient with an emergency condition to be treated by a board-certified emergency physician and further endorses the fact that every medical team must be led by a board-certified physician and not by private equity or lay corporation. These entities have no role in the care of the emergency patient, nor do they have the right to intrude upon the sanctity of the physician-patient relationship. For them to do so is unjust and unsafe for the patient population.”

"The ASPN, PSPS, SIS, ASIPP, AAPM Mission Statement clearly defines the right of every patient with pain condition to be treated by a board-certified pain physician and further endorses the fact that every medical team must be led by a board-certified pain physician and not by private equity or lay corporation. These entities have no role in the care of the pain patient, nor do they have the right to intrude upon the sanctity of the physician-patient relationship. For them to do so is unjust and unsafe for the patient population.”

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[myrandom2003]

https://www.aaem.org/UserFiles/file/PressRelease-AAEM-PGFilesSuitAgainstEnvisionHealthcare.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2BwBxwb-ceGEH0kZY0Wpw1Mh3VjJt4XJEHWGfPtrgVAh9XOLW58DzAKxQ

"Issues at stake include lay influence over the patient-physician relationship, as well as control of the fees charged, prohibited remuneration for referrals, and unfair restraint of the practice of a profession. AAEM-PG and its parent organization, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, believe this arrangement is not in the public interest."

Imagine if our societies--ASPN, PSPS, SIS, ASIPP, AAPM, etc wrote statements like this:

"The AAEM Mission Statement clearly defines the right of every patient with an emergency condition to be treated by a board-certified emergency physician and further endorses the fact that every medical team must be led by a board-certified physician and not by private equity or lay corporation. These entities have no role in the care of the emergency patient, nor do they have the right to intrude upon the sanctity of the physician-patient relationship. For them to do so is unjust and unsafe for the patient population.”

"The ASPN, PSPS, SIS, ASIPP, AAPM Mission Statement clearly defines the right of every patient with pain condition to be treated by a board-certified pain physician and further endorses the fact that every medical team must be led by a board-certified pain physician and not by private equity or lay corporation. These entities have no role in the care of the pain patient, nor do they have the right to intrude upon the sanctity of the physician-patient relationship. For them to do so is unjust and unsafe for the patient population.”

That particular statement wouldn't fly because many people in those societies are not Pain-board certified.
Maybe "board certified physician with additional sub-specialty training of at least one academic year in pain management" could work but sounds a little off.