This is not a law firm, a healthcare provider, or a patient advocacy organization.

 

What is Decency LLC?

DLLC takes its cues from think tanks, human rights advocates, and other civil society organizations when identifying room for improvement in healthcare. Rather than focusing on one issue or stakeholder, DLLC considers the views and needs of multiple participants in the healthcare system.

Whether you’re a doctor, a patient, a caregiver, a trainee, we look for ways to ensure you’re treated decently in that role.

Our origin: What makes a “decent” healthcare system?

In 2016, Decency LLC’s founder embarked on a career change from patent law practice to healthcare.

She knew she wanted to set people free from their prisons, but she felt more called or better equipped to focus on the internal ones (e.g., physical or psychiatric diseases) than the external ones (a traditional concern of practicing lawyers).

Ironically, through time spent over the following years in classes, laboratories, and clinical settings interacting with consumers of healthcare services, it soon became clear that many of the prisons we think of as internal are actually very much external.

It also became clear that much of the healthcare field and industry were not immune to the same flawed original assumption: that turning inward and focusing first and foremost on studying a population’s DNA will create the healthiest society.

Ultimately, while it may feel more efficient to turn inward to look for answers, neglecting the external leads to incomplete and unsustainable solutions.

With that in mind, the goal of initiatives like TIA Inc., a 2018-2022 non-profit effort, was to give the internal prisons due focus—without neglecting the external ones. Decency LLC carries on this mission today.

Click here to learn more about Decency LLC’s mission and policies.

 

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The Hippocratic Oath: A Window on an Evolving Profession

By name, the Hippocratic Oath may be one of the most recognizable texts in medicine. But how many people, if asked, could pinpoint the “official” version, and how many could recite its contents? This may be a trick question.

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The Purpose and History of Suicide Clauses in Life Insurance Policies

The purpose of life insurance is to provide a death benefit to beneficiaries when the insured individual dies. But what if the insured takes their own life? A seemingly simple legal clause—a term in an insurance contract—might have an important influence on public health.

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Thought of the Day

“The true problem is not to study how human life submits to rules - it simply does not; the real problem is how the rules become adapted to life.” (1976)