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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The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. The Mass Medical Society’s doing the same thing.
Talk about being out of touch.
I tell you, the Horcruxes are everywhere!
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.