Take Medicine Back recognizes that everyone's financial situation is unique. Cost should not be a barrier to joining Take Medicine Back. Pay what you can to support the movement.
Practicing Physicians and Dentists: $150 annually, quarterly, or monthly (you choose)
Trainees, Retirees, and Difficult Times: $30 Annually
This includes students, residents, fellows, retireees, and practicing physicians going through difficult financial times such as job loss, crushing educational debt, and extenuating family obligations. If your financial situation improves, you can change your contribution at a later date. Your payment at this fiscal level will not be visible to others. Payment at this level is an honor system. Some retirees will be in much better financial situations than others and can choose to pay as a practicing physician or dentist, as well as make one-time contributions.
Lifetime Membership: $3,000
Your membership supports advocacy to take the profession of medicine back and is built to empower your voice to do the same.
Important: Your membership is to a private organization, Take Medicine Back, PBLLC, a Public Benefit Company. Membership is to a private organization. Take Medicine Back is not organized as a 501(c)3 tax-advantaged organization.
Take Medicine Back Alliance: Coming Soon! For all non-physicians, non-dentists, non-veterinarians
Take Medicine Back acutely recognizes that physicians face the very real possibility of physicians facing retaliation when standing up for their ethics and patients. For that matter, so does the Senate Committee on Homeland Security. While there are no guarantees in cyber-security, we are designing membership to both empower and protect physicians' anonymity to the best degree possible.
Pseudonyms
Take Medicine Back embraces the use of pseudonyms - but with verification.
You will need to sign up with your real, legal name and NPI in order to join. This information will remain private and never be sold. But verification is needed in order to develop community trust.
You will be you will be anonymous by default, and assigned a random username. You can then choose to rename your user ID to a pseudonym once (choose carefully!) OR decide to use your real name, being aware that no platform is 100% secure.
If you have any concerns, then you are encouraged to begin by choosing a pseudonym and reclaim your identity when you are certain that benefits outweigh risks.
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