Word: ama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sickening, pompous, and criminal," an unpopular speaker at an AMA convention in 1966 said, "To speak of the United States as having any kind of medical care when many people can get no care at all. Until we can give everyone some part of the product, we can take little comfort in the help we give a few people...
...work is done. Until the AMA JOURNAL publishes reactions to the Report, medical acceptance of the new diagnosis is only probable, but not certain. Yet even medical and more important, legal acceptance of the redefinition isn't enough...
...EPENA, a potent snuff, is produced by the naked Waika Indians of northern Brazil-a tribe so backward that they have not yet discovered pots. But their hallucinatory snuff can induce a "trip" faster than LSD. Made from the bark of the epena and ama asita trees, epena is administered through a blowpipe. The tripster puts one end of the pipe to his nostril, and a helper gives a full-lunged blast that sends the snuff deep into the nasal passages. At first reeling and retching from the impact, the snuff taker soon straightens up, begins to strut, emits...
Speaking "in comment, not in criticism," Dr. Milford Rouse, incoming AMA chief, said that citizens have no right to expect the government to provide them with medical treatment...
...AMA takes an attitude of "good-humored, vigilant tolerance" towards the program, said Rouse...