Word: amas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second-year student at Harvard Medical School co-authored a study published in yesterday's New England Journal of Medicine, alleging that the political action committee of the American Medical Association (AMA) places its economic agenda before its public health concerns...
Congressional candidates who opposed the AMA's positions on three key public health issues received more money from the AMA's political action committee than candidates who supported these issues from 1989 to 1992, according to the study co-authored by Joshua M. Sharfstein...
...American Medical Association's house of delegates also indicated its discomfort with such memory-enhancement techniques as guided imagery, hypnosis and body massage, all of which heighten suggestibility and are widely employed by recovered- memory therapists. Use of these practices in eliciting accounts of childhood sexual abuse, the AMA delegates concluded, was "fraught with problems of potential misapplication...
Doctors would still be able to receive private certification that illustrated the level of studies they had completed. Thus, they could demonstrate that their training was equal to any AMA-certified physician. In addition, many levels of certification would open up above and beneath this level...
...only way to fully address the problems with our health care system is to attack its core. By removing the restrictions that enable the AMA to retain a monopoly on health care, we could successfully put America's health care crises in the past...