Word: amas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AMA opposed inoculation against smallpox, diphtheria immunization, and venereal disease clinics, claiming they would hurt the economic interests of private physicians...
...AMA opposed workmen's compensation ("socialized medicine"), and social security ("communism...
...AMA fought federal aid to the states to reduce infant and maternal mortality ("Federal bureaucratic interference with the sacred rights of the American home...
...AMA opposed the requirement that all cases of tuberculosis be reported to a public authority--the foundation of tuberculosis control...
From 1924 to 1949 the "Voice of the AMA" was Dr. Morris Fishbein, who edited the all-powerful Journal of the Association. Last year the membership finally gagged him for sounding off too loudly and too carelessly, but the spirit of Fishbein lived...