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SUMMARY:Brownstone Chicago Supper Club\, March 26\, 2026: Dr. Patricia Robitaille and Dr. Coleen Rickabaugh
DESCRIPTION:SHARE | PRINT | EMAILWe’re excited to invite you to the next Brownstone Chicago Supper Club on March 26\, 2026 at 5:30 PM at Base Community Café. Our featured speakers will be Dr. Patricia Robitaille and Dr. Coleen Rickabaugh. \nJoin us for an evening of great food\, drink\, lively discourse and community. $65 per person includes a tasty Italian themed dinner and drinks. \nAbout the talk\nDr. Patricia Robitaille and Dr. Coleen Rickabaugh will discuss critical reforms to the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) of 1986\, a law originally intended to address medical malpractice and improve patient care. However\, HCQIA is now often weaponized through sham peer reviews which silence ethical physicians who challenge profit-driven practices or administrative overreach. They have recently appeared on podcasts\, including DemystifySci and a Substack interview by Jefferey Jaxen. At this Brownstone event\, they will outline the original intent of HCQIA\, how the misapplication of this federal law controls physicians and negatively affects patient care\, in addition to proposed legislative amendments aimed at removing hospital immunity\, restoring due process\, protecting whistleblowers\, and prioritizing patient safety over institutional control. Their insights\, formed by decades of frontline experience in emergency medicine\, emphasize the urgent need to rewrite this flawed legislation and to rebuild trust and integrity in the medical system. \nAbout the Speakers\nDr. Patricia Robitaille is an emergency physician with 35 years of experience in hospital-based emergency medicine and 20 years of involvement in physician peer review and credentialing. As chairman\, she unified three credentialing committees from four hospitals\, to form a centralized\, systemwide Medical Staff Credentialing Committee which was responsible for the evaluation of thousands of physicians. She has extensive experience as an emergency department chairman and head of human resources for her practice group. She has dedicated her clinical career to putting patients first. Having personally witnessed ethically concerning issues in healthcare arising from the corporatization of medicine\, particularly the misapplication of the federal Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986\, she is dedicated to reforming of this law. She has sought to educate the public\, physicians\, and other healthcare professionals about these issues through her Substack and is collaborating on legislative efforts to reform HCQIA. \nDr. Coleen Rickabaugh has 30 years of experience practicing emergency medicine. She served as the recruiter for their department and has been the volunteer medical director for emergency medical services\, directing pre-hospital care in the county.  While her allopathic training had prepared her to treat true emergencies\, she quickly realized that many patients who presented to the emergency department were in desperate need of primary care. Having a holistic slant and a “whole person” philosophy of medicine\, she incorporated that into her practice model\, frequently educating patients about the dangers of over-reliance on pharmaceutical agents and coaching them on issues of immune health\, food as medicine\, and the importance of physical activity. She became increasingly disillusioned by the administrative usurpation of medicine\, the abandonment of ethics\, the substitution of protocol medicine for critical thinking\, and the lack of accessibility to proper care for many patients. These concerns peaked during the Covid pandemic. She became a Covid dissident and formed an underground alliance with one like-minded family practitioner in the community to treat patients early with immune support and assist them in navigating inpatient care with medical autonomy and informed consent. Having experienced moral injury\, she left clinical medicine to embark on healthcare advocacy issues\, partnering with Dr. Patricia Robitaille on a mission to reform the Health Care Quality Improvement Act that is failing as a patient safety mechanism and eroding the physician-patient relationship which is so vital for the optimization of patient health. \nTicket Information\n$65 per person includes a tasty Italian themed dinner and drinks. Capacity is limited to 40 peoples so secure your spot now. \nBase Community Cafe\, 1200 W. 35th Street\, Chicago\, IL\nBase Community Café is nestled inside the Bridgeport Art Center – one of the city’s most vibrant cultural and event venues. Chef Owner Paul Zavala creates bespoke seasonal cuisine with a chef’s eye and an artist’s heart. All is served in a comfortable café with fantastic coffee! \nNo Media Allowed. \nLocation and Parking \n\n1200 W. 35th Street\, Chicago\, IL 60609\nEnter on North Side off of Racine / 34th Place\nParking is available on the north side of the building.\n\n \nFor more information contact Jackie Sloan at Jackie@JackieSloanInc.com. Please include “Supper Club” in the subject line.
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LOCATION:Base Community Cafe\, 1200 W. 35th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60609\, United States
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