If You or a family member have Cancer, Autism, Fibromyalgia, Environmental Disease or other Illnesses. Please Protect Your Rights as a Patient & Your Freedom to Chose a Doctor.
Call to Action! www.txppr.com House Bill 3816 / Senate Bill 2336
Fellow Texans,
Our rights to find a specialty doctor in Texas are being threatened. The Texas Medical Board has targeted these doctors with complaints. Many have left Texas because of this. Please go to www.txppr.com To see how our personal freedom of choice is currently threatened.
Please take these actions below to help us preserve patient’s freedom of choice.
1. Visit the Texans for Patients' and Physicians' Rights website, www.txppr.com, and read H.B. 3816 and its summary.
2. Contact House Representative Brian McCall, Chairman of the Calendars Committee, as well as the other members of that committee. Ask them to put H.B. 3816 on the House of Representatives Calendar.
Chairman: Representative Brian McCall, brian.mccall@house.state.tx.us, www.house.state.tx.us/members/dist66/mccall.php
(512) 463-0594, FAX (512) 474-7512.
Committee on Calendars
brian.mccall@house.state.tx.us, Eddie.luccio@house.state.tx.us, norma.chavez@house.state.tx.us, garnet.colemand@house.state.tx.us,byron.cook@house.state.tx.us, brandon.creighton@house.state.tx.us, charlie.geren@house.state.tx.us, jim.keffer@house.state.tx.us, lois.kolkhorst@house.state.tx.us, edmund.kuempel@house.state.tx.us, allan.ritter@house.state.tx.us, burt.solomons@house.state.tx.us
jim.mcreynolds@house.state.tx.us
3. Contact your State Representative both by phone and e-mail and ask him to support and cosponsor H.B. 3816. Contact information for your state representative can be found on line at http://www.house.state.tx.us/resources/faq.htm#who_rep.
4. Contact the officers of your medical association, either TOMA or TMA, and ask them to support H.B. 3816.
TMA: www.Texmed.org Ph: (800) 880-1300, (512) 370-1300
TOMA http://www.txosteo.org (512) 708-8662, (800) 444-8662, Fax: (512) 708-1415E-mail: TOMA@txosteo.org
5. Enlist the support of friends, co-workers, family members and other patients. Supply them with this information and have them contact their state representative to ask him to support and sponsor H.B. 3816. Please forward this to others.
6. Please contact Rep. Fred Brown's and Senator Dan Patrick's offices and tell them "Thank you!" for introducing this legislation to protect patients' and physicians' rights by revising the Texas Medical Practice Act (TMPA.)
Rep. Fred Brown – (512) 463-0698 Senator Dan Patrick – (512) 463-0107
Working together we are convinced that we shall be successful in passing H.B.3816, bring transparency to the activities of the Texas Medical Board and protect patients' and physician’s rights.
Good luck to us all in preserving our rights.
Marge Woodard
Recent Updates...
04/17/09
We're within Striking Distance on HB 3816
04/07/09
HB 3816 - Current Joint Authors and Co-Authors
03/17/09
H.B. 3816 / S.B. 2336
03/16/09
Summary of Comprehensive Revisions to the Texas Medical Practice Act
02/11/09
Goals for Revised Texas Medical Practice Act with Citings
02/10/09
Video of Andrew Shlafly's Speech to AAPS
02/09/09
Goals for Revised Texas Medical Practice Act with Citings
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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