Word: ama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crippled bill, if it hobbles through Congressional committees to the floor, may even pass, because it is obsequious enough to collect votes in spite of continuing lobbying by the American Medical and Hospital Associations (AMA and AHA). Spending more than $3 million a year, those organizations put up a united front opposing mandatory controls and publicizing the hospital industry's moderately successful voluntary effort...
...Sheraton says. HMUN can hold their '79 conference, as planned. "We were no worse than the drunk old men from the Clover Club," Finnemore says. Things worked out okay, says Norchi. "I think they need us as much as we need them," he surmises, -- "the Shriners and the AMA cause more trouble than...
Rodkey said the AMA requires certain degrees of competence before awarding hospital privileges to specialists...
Relman said the AMA has been slow to give the public the factual information they need to choose a physician...
...Grant Rodkey, assistant clinical professor of surgery, said yesterday the government should not interfere with the AMA's standards...