Our Approach

Guiding Principles

1. Be honest, courteous, and kind.
2. Treat everyone you speak to and speak of with the respect of a brother, mother, father, and friend, most especially when that person’s situation can just as easily be your own.
3. Facilitate sustainable lives and promote sustainable systems.
4. Be open to new ideas and changing our own — for, there is always room to innovate and improve.
5. Listen to other people’s perspectives with this open ear.
6. Question EVERYTHING until you understand every detail.
7. When faced with a challenge or roadblock, look to your guiding principles to remind you of the magnitude and foundation of your goals.  Remember these principles because you should never veer from them if you wish to build a strong foundation.
8. Smile, most especially when it is dark.
9. Once you realize something is not right, never stop until you solve that issue to the best of your abilities.  If you let the problem sit, it will likely come back.
10. Deal with problems as quickly as possible, realizing there are countless other issues needing attention and others are busy with their own issues.
11. Everyone should have the freedom to make a choice to do anything, unless that choice adversely affects others.
    • Everyone should have the ability to purchase a product or service if that product or service does not adversely affect others.
12. Any person providing a service or product should be able to charge whatever will induce them to provide that service or product.  Whatever they charge over this is “excess profit,” which is not bad per se, and should not be prohibited; but, it is certainly gluttonous in nature.  However, their choice to charge whatever they seek to charge should be up to them, as they are providing that service or product.  (And, quite often, overcharging those that can afford a service or product allows a company or individual to provide that service to those less fortunate.)
13. In our darkest our – our fight for survival – we should be granted every opportunity possible to maintain our existence.  This is a natural drive instilled in all organisms; it is the desire for self-preservation.  Every individual should have the right to pursue this desire.
14. Any desire or goal can best be accomplished by approaching that goal from multiple angles rather than one.  However, each of these angles must be approached well.
15. We shall always strive for improvement.
16. Openness and honesty are essential to medical care and legislative innovation.  Anytime two people agree to interact with each other — be it purchasing a mortgage, ordering food from the store, or providing medical care — each person has a duty to be honest and open in this process; because, without honesty, we have nothing.

There are many more founding principles which I&C is based.  If you disagree or agree with these founding principles, it is no matter — our work may still be beneficial to you.  Feel free to inquire on where these principles apply or if you think they should be modifications, additions, or deletions.  Post a comment!

Policy on Openness, Transparency, and Accountability

We are focused on providing you with the most transparent and open organization possible.  We are keen on sharing the ins and outs of our organization with you – from our staff pay structure to our methods for quality control, you can read more about these inner workings by clicking the link below.

Read more about I&C Openness and Transparency

How it Works

Choosing the topics we teach and raise an awareness for:

Our focal areas are picked through a rigorous discussion of the most pertinent and demanding challenges facing medicine and healthcare today.  The weight of such topics is measured by the urgency of each topic, potential benefit(s) of reaching an optimal utilization of that topic, and the cost(s) of inaction.

After discussing potential benefits and the urgency of matters with our Advisory Council, our Board of Directors picks SEVEN of the most pertinent topics they feel should be addressed, now.  These seven topics are then voted on by our membership, who subsequently chooses three topics (from these seven) for our staff and organization to focus on improving and educating the general public on for a period of five years.  Once this five year term is complete, this process is repeated.

OR 3 of the four topics are chosen by staff, last topic is the hottest topic in the news, as people need to have the ability to ask us about any topic in the scope of healthcare, and we need to be able to answer these questions (most questions will be about what is in the news)

*Note:  An 80% vote of our general membership is sufficient and necessary to warrant a discussion and revote of our topics at any point in our organization’s life cycle.  To read more on how this vote can be achieved, click here.