Stop Practicing Medicine is a political action group started by Bradley Carpentier, M.D., in response to insurance companies who use non-specialists to try and practice pain treatment. Medicine is a sacred trust between a doctor and a patient. Stop Practicing Medicine asks insurance companies to allow doctors to practice medicine without their interference.

Stop Practicing Medicine is made up of serious physicians with a history of outstanding service to patients. They are motivated by a concern that insurance companies sometimes deny patients their right to quality medical care, a right to good health and at times, a right to life. It is premised by the belief that every human being has the right to thrive and that any decision based solely on profit is not in the best interest of the patient and his or her community.

The belief that medicine is best practiced by qualified physicians, specializing in a particular field of study has been sound for centuries. Many insurance companies employ a professional to make random medical decisions that can affect a patient’s health, livelihood and emotional well being. Often these insurance-company decisions are not carefully made; rather they are motivated by profit only. The decisions are often made under the guise of quality medical care, or evidence based medicine, but the intention of these guidelines is manipulated to suit the insurance carrier purpose of limiting costs and effectively denying care.

Stop Practicing Medicine will utilize the support of colleagues, patients and their families to speak out against the injustice of interference in medicine.