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...AMA For Sale, Again Back in September, the American Medical Association backed down from an endorsement deal with Sunbeam. Now the AMA is set to revive the cash-for-credibility corpse...
When the American Medical Association revealed three months ago it had agreed to endorse a line of Sunbeam products, the plan was almost universally denounced as poison for the credibility of the 150-year-old organization. So the AMA backed down. Thursday its chief executive, Dr. P. John Seward, resigned, anticipating a lambasting at the association's semi-annual meeting next week. He is the fifth high-level AMA officer to do so since the deal was announced...
...next week, the AMA's policy-setting House of Delegates will be considering a proposal titled "Principles to Guide A.M.A Corporate Relationships." Seems the Sunbeam deal never got voted on, just shouted down, and an official policy decision has still to be made. Critics of the first deal, which include scores of doctors as well as consumer advocacy groups, are shaking their heads...
...Tapontsang left Tibet for India to report to the Dalai Lama, beginning her travels speaking for Tibetan independence. On the suggestion of the Dalai Lama, she detailed her prison life in her recently-published book Ama Adhe: The Voice That Remembers...
...question about it, this is his pattern," says TIME's Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "He likes to come in, make bold and drastic cuts, and make himself and the company look great." (that clumsiness with the AMA notwithstanding). "Then he dumps...