Maintaining access to local healthcare by contacting newspapers and politicians

• Effective Communication about the Crisis
• List of Elected Officials HTML List with e-mail links PDF format.
• List of local and Illinois State Newspapers List with e-mail links PDF Format
• Sample Physician Letter to the Editor
• Sample Letter to an elected official from the public

Malpractice Crisis Downloads

• 11/20/05 update ISMIE Rate hearings 11/9/05 documentation 9/27/05 Transcript
• 2/23/2005 Physician Leaders Testify Before House Judiciary Committee about the litigation crisis and reform measures

   ¥ Testimony of ISMS President Kenneth J. Printen, M.D.

   ¥ Testimony of ISMIE Mutual Chairman Harold L. Jensen, M.D.

• 6/29/04 ICJL Landmark study by the Illinois Civil Justice League. Statistics include 50% of the doctors in St. Clair County and Madison County are sued at least one time, 5% of the lawyers are suing 50% of the doctors, and up to 80% of the cases are without merit. Discipline for lawyers in Illinois is lax.
• ISMIE 3/2004 Newsletter, listing competitors' rates
• 5/2004 Reality Medicine Brochure update Good comparison of malpractice insurance rates and the need for caps
• 12/2003 Letter from ISMIE, documenting the facts about the crisis
• ISMS Patient brochures Brochure 1 Brochure 2
• ISMS Posters Poster 1 Poster 2 Order free color copies of these here
• ISMS Powerpoint Presentation
• 12/2003 AMA Survey among medical students, including a student in surgery stating that there is no chance he would locate in Illinois
• AMA Map of the Crisis States

AMA Gift Giving Rules concerning the pharmaceutical industry

Download a form to send in for SCCMS and MCMS merchandise.

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