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Again, New York State public health authorities have shown a noticeable distortion by the refusal consumer groups in an area of the table, then anti-patient approves the recommendations of the New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME), CURE, NY, Coalition of New York State consumer and patient groups. While the effectiveness of recommendations on opportunities for doctors in practice in underserved areas, what we call on the status of Department of Health (DOH) to stop recommending the proposed anti-patients, the fight against consumption and uncertain, and the start of consumer and patient groups and the chance to enter a judicious.

According to a press release on March 25 DOH, in the direction of COGME five working groups to consult with a large group of expert advice on health and Full-Council to draw up proposals to improve the… New York’s Graduate Medical Education System. ” As a result of the CURE-NY, consumer groups have been completely omitted be at the root of the proceedings. For reasons that are not clear COGME has recommendations that have nothing to do with education, but also support for “reforms of the medical liability,” which, in general, patients’ rights and ” weaken patient safety and by the hands of the state and medical insurance lobbies.

Art Levin, medical director of the Centre for consumers, said: “I can not save free registration arzthaftungsrechtlichen questions COGME solutions. If everything it should have done, requires safety training throughout judicious Graduate Medical Education Programs New York State. ”

This is the 24th March on the heels a letter to the governor of Paterson signed by the State of a number of consumer and patient groups to express “concerns about the openness and transparency of the review of l ‘malpractice, insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo Commissioner Richard and health during the Daines Previous administration. “The groups said they were” deeply concerned that all the recommendations are the product of such a process is not in the public interest. ”

“The Department of State health needs for the continuation of the agenda of medical lobbies to weaken patients’ rights,” said John Guyette CURE, NY. ” Thanks to the public interest, without awareness of the organizations of the DOH COGME process is once again on a commitment for the protection of health, liability, rather than to ensure the safety of patients. ”

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Consumers and the reform of the United Nations Education (CURE, NY) is a federal state of the advocacy coalition of consumer rights and safety of patients, the organizations of reducing the incidence of deaths and injuries, medical errors and protecting the rights of victims of medical negligence. CURE-NY against the use of state money to subsidize Medicaid arzthaftungsrechtlichen supports greater discipline of the medical pains to avoid the worst, that the practitioners beraubend innocents in New York, and supports legislative and regulatory changes, such as the rating of their doctors safety track record, to protect consumers and reduce costs for good doctors.

CURE-NY members:

ANIBIC (The Association for the neurology Brain Impaired children injured, Inc)
Caribbean Women’s Health Care Association
Center for Democracy & Justice
Medical Centre for consumers
Citizen Action of New York
At the action of disabled persons
Empire State consumer organization
Harlem consumers, the Education Council
Headway of Western New York, Inc.
LIAAC (Long Island Association for AIDS Care, Inc.)
NYPIRG (New York Public Interest Research Group)
Pulse of New York
WESPAC Foundation (Westchester People’s Action Coalition)