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CHICAGO: Suddenly the American Medical Association has cold feet. After agreeing to allow the Sunbeam Corporation to use the AMA logo on its medical equipment, the organization said today it wants to reconsider the five-year endorsement package. Why? It seems the esteemed group of doctors have not actually tested Sunbeam's wares, which makes the 'stamp of approval' meaningless. Critics maintain the AMA could hurt its credibility by lending its name for cash. TIME science writer Christine Gorman agrees: "It's when the money is changing hands that we start questioning this kind of agreement," she says. Will...
WASHINGTON: Are you comfortable with doctors getting paid to stamp their endorsement on a thermometer? The American Medical Association, the nation's largest organization of doctors, and Sunbeam Corp. signed an exclusive five-year contract to put the AMA seal on Sunbeam products such as blood-pressure monitors and heating pads. In turn, the AMA gets a cut of the action...
...proof of this will come later this week when the entire G.O.P. presidential field (from Bob Dole to Illinois businessman Maurice Taylor), the Democratic leaders of the House and the Senate, a bipartisan mishmash of Washington politicians, even Jesse Jackson, converge in Dallas for an unprecedented three-day pander-ama. Each, in his way, hopes Perot will be all ears...
...this information before," says TIME's Anastasia Toufexis, "but never so much compiled in one place. The biggest impact will probably come in the courtroom. These 10,000 pages will give a lot of ammunition to lawsuits against the tobacco companies." A Brown & Williamson spokesman accused the AMA of engaging in "a cherry-picking exercise" in pursuit of its agenda to wipe out smoking...
...American Medical Association today said violence in the United States is growing worse, and gave the country a failing "report card" for its efforts to curb the problem. "It's a 'D' at best, America," said Robert McAfee, president of the AMA, in an editorial in the group's journal, adding: "Despite widespreadcommunity efforts and greater awareness of violence, the tide of violent behavior does not show any signs of turning.'' So concerned are physicians that this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association is devoted almost entirely to the subject of violence. Despite an overall...