At one time, the doctor patient relationship was considered inviolable. 

Today that relationship is under attack. Whether you're a physician or a patient, you have an equal interest in reasserting this partnership. That's the purpose of the Patient/Doctor Policy Foundation, a health policy foundation committed to: 

• Educate patients about health policy decisions that directly affect their personal interactions with the health care system

• Educate physicians about the health policy process and how policy decisions can influence their approach to an individual patient

• Provide a central resource for information and education on these issues

• Provide a forum where patients and physicians can discuss approaches to current problems in the health care system and develop practical, effective, cost-efficient and time-efficient strategies to influence health policy decisions.