# Independent Medical Alliance

> The Independent Medical Alliance is a healthcare nonprofit on a mission to restore trust, integrity, and the doctor-patient relationship.
> Last updated: 2026-07-08

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## Recent Content

- [The Flexner Turning Point: How Scientific Medicine Raised Standards and Narrowed the Field](https://imahealth.org/the-flexner-turning-point-how-scientific-medicine-raised-standards-and-narrowed-the-field/): The Flexner Report helped raise standards at a time when standards were needed. But reform is never only about improvement. It is also about power.
- [Medicine at 250 Years: Putting Patients Back in Charge](https://imahealth.org/medicine-at-250-years-putting-patients-back-in-charge/): Texas family physician Dr. Kat Lindley shares how direct primary care cuts out the middlemen and puts patients back in charge of their healthcare.
- [When Medicine Became a Profession: Medical Schools, Licensing, and the Rise of Scientific Authority](https://imahealth.org/when-medicine-became-a-profession-medical-schools-licensing-and-the-rise-of-scientific-authority/): The question is whether medicine can preserve scientific rigor without losing the independent physician, the informed patient, and the human relationship at the center of care.
- [Medicine at 250 Years: Restoring the Roots of American Medicine](https://imahealth.org/medicine-at-250-years-restoring-the-roots-of-american-medicine/): What did 250 years of American medicine build, what did it lose, and what must the next era restore? From the home visit to the insurance portal, this episode asks how we get back to what matters.
- [Medicine at 250 Years: Why the Next Era Must Restore Trust](https://imahealth.org/medicine-at-250-years-why-the-next-era-must-restore-trust/): As America marks 250 years, Dr. Joseph Varon reflects on medicine's roots and calls for restoring trust, consent, and the doctor-patient relationship.
- [Independent Medical Alliance Applauds End of COVID-19 Emergency Authorizations; “Should Have Happened Years Ago”](https://imahealth.org/independent-medical-alliance-applauds-end-of-covid-19-emergency-authorizations-should-have-happened-years-ago/): National physician network warns a 12-month wind-down for drugs and biologics leaves these unsafe products on the market far too long.
- [The Home Was the First Clinic: American Medicine Before the System](https://imahealth.org/the-home-was-the-first-clinic-american-medicine-before-the-system/): Before medicine became a system, care was personal, local, and built on relationships. As America marks 250 years, IMA explores what modern medicine must restore.
- [Ivermectin Is on Trial Again. This Time, It’s Cancer.](https://imahealth.org/ivermectin-is-on-trial-again-this-time-its-cancer/): The largest oncology society in America just recommended against ivermectin and fenbendazole in cancer. Dr. Marik argues the evidence standard was never built for these drugs.
- [IMA Joins the 30th Asia Pacific Symposium on Critical Care and Emergency Medicine](https://imahealth.org/ima-joins-the-30th-asia-pacific-symposium-on-critical-care-and-emergency-medicine/): IMA President Dr. Joseph Varon and fellow speakers head to Bali for the 30th Asia Pacific Symposium on Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, July 31–Aug. 2.
- [Cancer Care Is Evolving: What Patients Need to Know](https://imahealth.org/cancer-care-is-evolving-what-patients-need-to-know/): IMA's cancer research continues to expand and sharpen. In this webinar, Dr. Marik and Dr. Cole walk through what patients should know about diet, vitamin D, repurposed drugs, and reducing metastatic risk around surgery.


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