Word: amas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commenting on the results of a six-year study of the country's medical schools by the AMA...
Answering the AMA's criticism that schools were sacrificing study time and student's elective choice by rigidity of curriculum which included too much material and too many exams. Barry, said, "That's a problem that confronts every school and I think we are pretty free of it here...
...against the socialization of the practice of medicine as much as I would be against the socialization of my own profession, the law." When the Governor suggested that the Democratic convention make no mention of compulsory health insurance in its platform, his party obliged. Clearly, then, the AMA doctors fear no strangulation of free enterprise in the medical field no matter who is elected...
...AMA has been extremely successful in squelching legislation in the medical field for the last ten years. Perhaps it is this flush of victory that makes the group jump out of the grandstand and start campaigning. Undoubtedly, the AMA would feel safer with Washington Republican. Ever since it opposed Woodrow Wilson's proposal for extended small pox innoculation as "socialism," most of its targets have been Democratic proposals...
...whatever the reason, these AMA doctors have overstepped the rightful arena of pressure group action with this letter. Doctors enjoy a respected position in our communities, and their personal advice is respected. That the AMA wants its members to expend this respect over a false issue is shameful, but is a typical example of what the group will do to stagnate the nation's health program...