ABOUT US

The founders of The Medical Accountability Network witnessed the rapid decline of medical ethics in the last two decades. This was represented by such major disasters as the absolution of responsibility for assembly-line like managed care, to massive failures of individual leadership as exemplified by the former FDA director resigning rather than defend the allegation that some 94% of the highest paid NIH research scientists had gross conflicts of interests with the drug industry. It was no longer enough for each of us to doggedly try to function as lone practitioners in a sea of varying degrees of unethical behaviors and practices. We decided that the wrong thing to do was nothing. It was time to risk unpopularity by calling for frank discussions on morals in medicine. We chose the issue of informed consent as key to regulating the conduct of doctor/patient relations. This website is designed to provide useful information for the professional as well as lay public.