Free medical profession
| Free medical profession (FÄ) |
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| purpose | Professional association |
| Chair: | Wieland Dietrich |
| Establishment date: | 2004 |
| Number of members: | around 2,000 |
| Seat : | eat |
| Website: | free-aerzteschaft.de |
The Freie Ärzteschaft eV (short: FÄ ) is a medical professional association based in Essen.
The association was founded in 2004 by doctors who dealt with professional policy issues in the internet medical forum facharzt.de . In contrast to other groups and organizations, information and the exchange of opinions takes place primarily via the Internet. Chairman Wieland Dietrich, dermatologist from food , he followed the in Erkrath established general and sports medicine specialist Martin Grauduszus. According to its own information, the independent medical profession includes around 2,000 established doctors nationwide.
aims
The independent medical profession sees itself as a coordinator of the interests of general practitioners and specialists. According to her own statements, she advocates safe, patient and future-oriented medicine, in which the doctor and patient should again be the focus. She advocates the maintenance and expansion of up-to-date outpatient care in private practice, opposes “rationed state medicine and bureaucratization” and advocates solidarity among all medical groups, as well as human employment relationships and appropriate pay in the medical professions.
activities
In April 2005 the association organized the “1. Doctors' Day from Below "in Berlin. It declared November 9, 2005 to be the “National Day of Protest of Resident Doctors and Medical Assistants” and called for a central rally in Cologne, in which, according to press reports, 2,500 to 5,000 resident doctors and their employees took part. On November 30, 2005, the independent medical profession met with seven other nationwide medical associations (such as the German General Practitioner Association , Hartmannbund, Marburger Bund and NAV-Virchow-Bund ) in the context of a crisis discussion about the “now existing and threatening further deterioration in outpatient and inpatient medical care for patients in Germany ”decided to coordinate and network their activities for the purpose of greater impact. According to estimates by the police, around 30,000 people took to the streets in Berlin on March 24, 2006 on the Second National Protest Day to protest against further regulations. The Berlin-Essen resolution was passed by acclamation .
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On November 4, 2006, the association organized the doctors' day at the base in Cologne, which focused on the issues of solidarity return of health insurance and electronic health cards. In 2007 and 2008 the medical profession took part in the demonstration freedom instead of fear in Berlin with the topic of the electronic health card . The 3rd Doctors' Day at the base on February 9, 2008 in Hanover dealt primarily with the subjects of fee lies , recourse and selective contracts . In the week after Easter 2008, the medical profession called on general practitioners to keep their practices closed in protest against the federal government's health policy .
The association wants to legally prevent the electronic health card.
One focus of the activities is providing information to patients, citizens, doctors, journalists and politicians.
Web links
- Internet presence of the Free Medical Association
- Essen resolution and Berlin-Essen resolution
- Timo Blöß, Sabine Rieser: Protest rally in Berlin: State of emergency in health care. In: Dt. Medical journal. March 31, 2006.
- Josef Maus: Free medical profession: Preparations for the return of the license. In: Dt. Medical journal. November 10, 2006.
- Josef Maus: Admission waiver: off to the basket. In: Dt. Medical journal. November 10, 2006.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c That's us. In: Freie-aerzteschaft.de , accessed on August 28, 2016.
- ↑ New board of directors for the independent medical profession: Wieland Dietrich new chairman. In: presseportal.de. November 18, 2012, accessed August 28, 2016 .
- ^ First trial against electronic health card. on: stoppt-die-e-card.de September 3, 2010.