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				<title>sailor replied to the discussion This is Why The IMA&#039;s Journal of Independent Medicine is Needed in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:13:39 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class = "activity-discussion-title-wrap"><a href="https://imahealth.org/forums/groups/public-forum/forum/discussion/this-is-why-the-imas-journal-of-independent-medicine-is-needed/#post-15275"><span class="bb-reply-lable">Reply to</span> This is Why The IMA's Journal of Independent Medicine is Needed</a></p> <div class="bb-content-inr-wrap"><p>Why isn&#8217;t the journal that originally published, then retracted, the paper named?</p>
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				<title>sailor replied to the discussion When Medicine Creates the Illness in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:36:26 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class = "activity-discussion-title-wrap"><a href="https://imahealth.org/forums/groups/public-forum/forum/discussion/when-medicine-creates-the-illness/#post-15249"><span class="bb-reply-lable">Reply to</span> When Medicine Creates the Illness</a></p> <div class="bb-content-inr-wrap"><p>Sounds like the story in Laura Delano&#8217;s book, _Unshrunk_. </p>
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				<title>sailor replied to the discussion Any Projects to organize Honest Medicine/Direct Pay Hospitals? in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:43:38 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class = "activity-discussion-title-wrap"><a href="https://imahealth.org/forums/groups/public-forum/forum/discussion/any-projects-to-organize-honest-medicine-direct-pay-hospitals/#post-15085"><span class="bb-reply-lable">Reply to</span> Any Projects to organize Honest Medicine/Direct Pay Hospitals?</a></p> <div class="bb-content-inr-wrap"><p>Since asking this question,  I became aware of an effort by Dr. Paul Dibble in Humble, TX, to start such a hospital.   There is a website in WaybackMachine that calls it Beacon Medical Center, but the effort appears to have folded, and my emails to the info@ address have gone unanswered.  </p>
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				<title>sailor started the discussion List of those denied or Docs denying Care to Unvaccinated in the forum General</title>
				<link>https://imahealth.org/forums/groups/public-forum/forum/discussion/list-of-those-denied-or-docs-denying-care-to-unvaccinated/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:29:15 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class = "activity-discussion-title-wrap"><a href="https://imahealth.org/forums/groups/public-forum/forum/discussion/list-of-those-denied-or-docs-denying-care-to-unvaccinated/">List of those denied or Docs denying Care to Unvaccinated</a></p> <div class="bb-content-inr-wrap"><p>Are there lists out there of patients who have been denied medical attention due to being unvaccinated or lists of doctors who have denied care to unvaccinated people?  </p>
<p>The search engines will tell me about organ transplant patients who have been denied, and about Drs. Valentine and Marraccini, who famously announced their practices would&hellip;</p>
<p><span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-32023"><a href="https://imahealth.org/forums/groups/public-forum/forum/discussion/list-of-those-denied-or-docs-denying-care-to-unvaccinated/" rel="nofollow"> Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>sailor replied to the discussion Any Projects to organize Honest Medicine/Direct Pay Hospitals? in the forum General</title>
				<link>https://imahealth.org/forums/groups/public-forum/forum/discussion/any-projects-to-organize-honest-medicine-direct-pay-hospitals/#post-6751</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:57:49 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class = "activity-discussion-title-wrap"><a href="https://imahealth.org/forums/groups/public-forum/forum/discussion/any-projects-to-organize-honest-medicine-direct-pay-hospitals/#post-6751"><span class="bb-reply-lable">Reply to</span> Any Projects to organize Honest Medicine/Direct Pay Hospitals?</a></p> <div class="bb-content-inr-wrap"><p>There are ways around Stark, like making the physicians debt-holders, instead of equity-holders.  I&#8217;m not sure what ACA did, but you are making my point for me, since a direct-pay hospital would not accept Medicare or big health plans.  Ambulatory surgery centers, like Surgery Center of Oklahoma are showing that direct-pay for outpatient&hellip;</p>
<p><span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-24782"><a href="https://imahealth.org/forums/groups/public-forum/forum/discussion/any-projects-to-organize-honest-medicine-direct-pay-hospitals/#post-6751" rel="nofollow"> Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>sailor started the discussion Any Projects to organize Honest Medicine/Direct Pay Hospitals? in the forum General</title>
				<link>https://imahealth.org/forums/groups/public-forum/forum/discussion/any-projects-to-organize-honest-medicine-direct-pay-hospitals/</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:53:47 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class = "activity-discussion-title-wrap"><a href="https://imahealth.org/forums/groups/public-forum/forum/discussion/any-projects-to-organize-honest-medicine-direct-pay-hospitals/">Any Projects to organize Honest Medicine/Direct Pay Hospitals?</a></p> <div class="bb-content-inr-wrap"><p>I heard one doctor say last fall, that she knew of (or possibly was involved in) a project to start a direct pay acute-care hospital, but I have not been able to get any more about it or any other attempts to clear this last, big hurdle to setting up the full compliment of parallel medical institutions. </p>
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				<title>sailor started the discussion Who&#039;s writing on growing employee physician count/dwindling independent count? in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 02:01:30 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class = "activity-discussion-title-wrap"><a href="https://imahealth.org/forums/groups/public-forum/forum/discussion/whos-writing-on-growing-employee-physician-count-dwindling-independent-count/">Who&#039;s writing on growing employee physician count/dwindling independent count?</a></p> <div class="bb-content-inr-wrap"><p>I was told that FLCCC was putting out good writing about the trend of physicians&#8217; becoming employees of hospital systems, or of large practices owned by a few bigwigs, or even of practices owned by private equity companies, but I am not finding anything by searching the FLCCC site.</p>
<p>Who is writing about this or giving presentations about it?  I&hellip;</p>
<p><span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-17964"><a href="https://imahealth.org/forums/groups/public-forum/forum/discussion/whos-writing-on-growing-employee-physician-count-dwindling-independent-count/" rel="nofollow"> Read more</a></span></p>
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