About The Society

Since its founding in 1983, the People’s Medical Society has championed the rights of medical consumers. The largest medical consumer advocacy organization in the United States, it has published an impressive assortment of health classics, including Medicine on Trial and Take This Book to the Hospital With You.

Described as "a leading advocacy group" by the New York Times, the People’s Medical Society has been an important advisor to the Health Care Financing Administration on Medicare issues and an important health resource for many major news organizations, including the Wall Street Journal and U.S. News & World Report.

Founded on the premise that the existing medical and health care system is too expensive, too impersonal and too unwilling to concentrate on preventive medicine and foster an equal partnership basis between consumer and physician, the People's Medical Society has these goals:

* To put previously unavailable information into the hands of ordinary people so that they can make informed decisions about their own health care.

* To publish information designed to make every American a smart health care consumer.

* To investigate and expose incidents of arrogance, incompetence and greed in organized medicine.

* To protect the freedom to choose alternative providers of health care services.

* To make the prevention of disease the top priority of American medicine.

* To work toward creating an American health care system that is affordable, compassionate and centered around the needs of people.

Says the Knight-Ridder News Service, "Doctors have the American Medical Association to look after their interests. Hospitals have the American Hospital Association. Now, consumers have the People’s Medical Society."

The People's Medical Society has been featured on "Good Morning America," "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Geraldo!" and in the New York Times, Money and USA Today. If you are interested in doing a story about us or reviewing one of our publications, please call 610-770-1670 or e-mail media@peoplesmed.org.

Our Board of Directors includes:

Chair--Pamela Maraldo, Ph.D., R.N. Columbia University

Vice Chair--Gail E. Ross, J.D. Lichtman, Trister, Singer & Ross

Secretary--Alan Trench FITNE, Inc.

Bruce Comly French, J.D. Claude W. Petit College of Law, Ohio Northern University

Lowell Levin, Ed.D. Yale University School of Medicine

To contact the People's Medical Society, write or call:

People's Medical Society

P.O. Box 868

Allentown, PA 18105-0868

Phone: 610-770-1670

cbi@peoplesmed.org