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Crimson: You have taken the position, as did your predecessor, that any article whose contents have appeared elsewhere will not be accepted by the Journal. Lawrence Grouse, one of the editors of the journal of the AMA has said that this policy has had "a chilling effect on the reporting of medical news in this country." Such a policy is said to make researchers reluctant to speak with reporters which slows the delivery of scientific breakthrough to the public. could you defend your policy...
Crimson: A recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal claimed that the American Medical Association (AMA) is losing the political clout it once had due to a drop in membership. Is this true and can you explain...
Relman: The facts are the facts. They are not a matter of opinion. I think it is true that now that AMA has a smaller regular full-dues-paying membership and a smaller fraction of the total practicing population of American doctors than a few decades ago...It's posing a real problem because if the AMA wants to speak for American medicine, it has to be able to demonstrate that it represents at least a majority and right new it does not...Now what is this due to?...The first and most obvious reason why the AMA is having...
Another reason why the AMA may be having membership trouble is that the AMA has been very active politically and although I suspect that American physicians in general tend to be more conservative as a group than other segments of middle class America, they are still pretty heterogenous politically. I think there are many physicians, particularly young physicians, who hesitate to join the AMA because the AMA doesn't speak for their political views...I think that's too bad. I recognize the practical necessity of organized medicine to become involved in political affairs. You can't separate health care...
Voluntary control of health care costs by the private sector and increased emphasis on basic health services will direct U.S. health policy during the coming decade, the executive vice president of the American Medical Association (AMA) said yesterday in a speech at the School of Public Health...