AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTH FREEDOM

To all Integrative/Holistic/Alternative/Complementary Physicians:
PLEASE HELP BY READING AND COMPLETING THIS QUESTIONNARIE


One of the goals of The Umbrella Stand is to help and support physicians when they are legally challenged for practicing integrative therapies. By completing the questionnaire below, you will help us to understand the depth and breadth of the attacks on physicians practicing non-conventional medicine and in creating a legal strategy team to assist those physicians who are investigated and/or charged by state or federal agencies for using such therapies. If you are aware of other physicians who have had legal experiences, please ask them to complete this as well.

Please send your completed questionnare to:

Fax: 703-759-6711 Mail: HFF, P.O Box. 1002, Great Falls, VA 22066
Email: office@healthfreedom.net Please call 1.800.230.2762 with any questions
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What state do you practice in?  
Have you ever been contacted or investigated by your medical board or other state or federal agency? If yes, describe:  
Were charges filed against you? If yes, describe:  
What legal strategies did you employ?  
What did you feel helped or hurt your case?  
What was the outcome?  
Who was your attorney(s)? (Please provide any contact information available)  
Did you feel they were they effective? Describe why:  
Would you recommend this attorney to another physician in a similar position?  
Did you involve your patients to help you? If yes, was this strategy effective?  
What did you feel helped or hurt your case?  
Did you take your case to the media and if so, what were the outcomes?  
Would you be willing to discuss your experience with a member of our legal strategy team?  
If you had legal difficulty, would you have liked a "SWAT" team (attorneys, public relations, strategist, etc.) experienced in protecting and defending doctors who practice alternative medicine?  
How interested would you be in joining a health freedom coalition sponsored program to insure that our legal strategy team is available to you and your colleagues if/when the need arises?  
Would you be willing to provide a yearly membership due to directly support -- and have access to -- strategies to defend and protect CAM health care practitioners?  
How would you rate your medical board and the laws in your state?
___ Medical board is very effective and fair.
___ Medical board is primarily for conventional medicine and bias against alternative.
___ Medical board is a body to be feared by physicians who practice safe and effective alternative medicine.
___ Medical board is not a threat to physicians who do alternative medicine and have good office and practice procedures.
 
How many medical board meetings have you attended?
 
How many physicians do you know personally that:
Have been disciplined unfairly by the board_____?
Have been disciplined fairly____
Are a threat to the public and should be disciplined: Conventional ___ Integrative ____?
 
Do you have a defense plan in place to protect your self in case of a charge against you?
 
Do you think the laws in the state are unbiased and protect physicians who practice safe & effective alternative medicine
 
Do you think the federal laws are unbiased and enable you to practice safe & effective alternative medicine that way you would want
 
Are you familiar with the Access to Medical Treatment Act (HR 2792)? Do you support it?
 
Any other questions or comments:
 
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