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.

 

Opinions and Analysis

Recent Blog Posts
Across the Atlantic: Medical Checks for Drivers, Rehabilitation of Biological Villains

From discussions on driver health to new uses for amyloid fibrils and unsafe drugs, here are some of the stories making headlines in March.

Category: In the News

When Accountability Is Like a Box of Chocolates

This past Valentine’s Day, a damaged box of chocolates highlighted an area for improvement—in the healthcare system.

By Alessandra Suuberg

Around the Web: Is This Data Reliable?

What are the most common inaccuracies in medical records? How often do these errors have consequences for the patient?

By Alessandra Suuberg

A Common Parasite Could One Day Deliver Drugs to the Brain − How Scientists Are Turning Toxoplasma Gondii from Foe into Friend

Parasites take an enormous toll on human and veterinary health. But researchers may have found a way for patients with brain disorders and a common brain parasite to become frenemies.

By Bill Sullivan

Issue Summary: The High Cost of Healthcare in the United States

Decency LLC’s issue summary on healthcare spending considers factors influencing—and implications of—the high cost of healthcare in the United States.

Category: Issue Summaries

Biden Administration Advances Plan to Remove Medical Debt from Credit Scores

Americans would no longer have to worry about medical debts dragging down their credit scores under federal regulations proposed Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

By Noam N. Levey, KFF Health News

 

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)