UNITED FOR PATIENT PROTECTION
BREVARD COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY, A MULTI-SPECIALTY GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATION, JOINS PHYSICIANS TOGETHER TO ADVOCATE FOR PATIENT RIGHTS
On a cool evening in March, board members of the Brevard County Medical Society (BCMS) quietly dine and converse about nothing of major importance: their homes, the cities they come from, how well they like certain institutions in Brevard County, their spouses and children. Then someone mentions, half jokingly, that too often these days, physicians sometimes are not referred to as physicians. They are “medical professionals” or “health care givers” or simply “providers.” “Prescriber,” Dr. Stephen Badolato, the society’s immediate past president, says softly, and leans forward to lend his words emphasis. “I read today that I am not even a ‘health care provider.’ I am a ‘prescriber.’ That’s what the pharmacy calls us. Imagine that. We are simply… ‘prescribers.’” With that, all hint of jocularity fades among
the diners, each a physician, each eminent in his or her field, each of whom uses the word “patient” in a personal, rather than abstract, manner, and each of whom is disappointed that anyone should refer to a physician as anything less.
| 28 | SPACECOAST LIVING HEALTH “That is why we are active in the Brevard County Medical Society,” says
Dr. Lance Grenevicki, the society’s current president. “In these days of regulation and governmental intrusion, when we are labeled as so many things, we feel so strongly about keeping the human beings at the forefront. We practice medicine, the very heart of which is humanity.”
FINDING STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
“Our ultimate achievement will be to become the true mouthpiece for the practice of medicine in Brevard County. Our patients
deserve no less.” – Dr. Lance Grenevicki, president of the BCMS
So they do, in an era of remarkable scientific achievement and equipment of which physicians in a previous era could not have dreamed. But neither could they have dreamed of the countless hours of paperwork; the endless explanations to insurance companies; the requirements for additional study; and the possibility that government regulation, which they already view as highly restrictive, if not downright interfering, could grow yet greater. Still, it’s not merely about them as physicians or
individuals. It’s about the state of medicine in general. At its heart, it is about the patient.
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