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Lifestyle & Wellness, Patient Advocates, By Paul Engstrom
CONSUMER HEALTH INTERACTIVE
Autosomal Dominant Aniridia: Probable Linkage to Acid Phosphatase-1 Locus on Chromosome 2
Robert E. Ferrell, Aravinda Chakravarti, Helen Mintz Hittner, Vincent M. Riccardi, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 77, No. 3, [Part 2: Biological Sciences] (Mar., 1980), pp. 1580-1582
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/110518417/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/110512344/ABSTRACT
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/120/12/1043
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/561646_4
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1034/j.1399-0004.2000.580502.x
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Mission
The mission of American Medical Consumers (AMC) is to empower medical consumers by making the shift to consumer-directed health care meaningful and beneficial, helping them to save money and to improve their health. AMC was founded to deal with one issue – MEDICAL CONSUMERISM – based on the primacy of medical consumers realistically partnering with their doctors.
SHORT-TERM GOAL: To minimize the financial and health liabilities of patients, particularly those with severe and chronic disorders.
LONG-TERM GOAL: To improve the American healthcare delivery system by modernizing it to a knowledge-based collaboration between doctor and patient, in contrast to contract-based superimpositions on both doctors and patient.
History
AMC was founded in November 1992 as a California company with a nationwide impact. This company is presently a wholly owned subsidiary of the California corporation, The Neurofibromatosis Institute, Inc. Since its founding, AMC has engaged over 2100 clients. As healthcare delivery industry insiders, we have helped individual customers to
* Obtain access to enhanced health care
* Decrease medical bills
* Pursue grievances and lawsuits
* Improve relations with doctors and healthplans
As well, we have provided direct assistance to numerous employers, practitioners, medical groups, healthplans, scholars, journalists, government agencies and self-help groups. In short, AMC is an established leader in medical consumerism.
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