Taking it to the AMA

July 26, 2007

A vicious op-ed in the Washington Post slams the AMA. No doubt, many physicians may feel the same way:

You might expect that the AMA would fight the insurers, hospitals, government bureaucrats and ivory tower academics who have diminished physicians’ incomes, besmirched their ethical reputations and compromised their professionalism — but you would be wrong. No, instead, at its annual meeting last month, the AMA declared war on retail medical clinics, located in places such as CVS and Wal-Mart.

(via Dr. Wes)





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{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

1 RJS July 26, 2007 at 12:25 pm

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. The Mass Medical Society’s doing the same thing.

Talk about being out of touch.

2 DR. MARY JOHNSON July 26, 2007 at 2:41 pm

I tell you, the Horcruxes are everywhere!

3 Anonymous July 26, 2007 at 4:33 pm

Read the article.

The writer takes a few swats at the AMA, ostensibly for not taking on the insurers, which is a fair cop. But half of the “op-ed” is devoted to a defense of retail pharmacy walk-in clinics and to wrapping that business in the flag while dumping apple pie on top.

The writer is a stalking horse for the retail pharmacists and their sponsoring companies: major drugstore chains and That Company from Arkansas.

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