SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF MEDICAL CONSUMERS

Identify, alert, and educate members and the public traps in healthcare, medical services or practices that are undesirable or even detrimental to medical consumers' health; Address such issues and research relevant factors, working with experts and stake holders in search of medical services and practices that reduce errors, risks, and cost, to optimize medical consumers' health; Establish databases to document unethical, substandard, or questionable practices based on documentary evidence across the country searchable by members; Eventually, support a group of medical consumers collectively suffering the same category of issue in their own efforts to seek redress and demand improved healthcare by providing our research data and analysis of the issue; Educate members and the public on medical consumer responsibilities in maintaining and optimizing health through our Website, Members' Blog, Public Blog, annual conference, or community meetings; Recognize outstanding healthcare professionals and medical practitioners and alert members and the public of medical innovations, new drugs, new devices, improved standards of care, protocols, and advanced healthcare practices that reduce errors, risks, cost, and optimize health over and above existing standards and practices