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...A.M.A. predictably has pooh-poohed the A.C.P. statement. Says Dr. Raymond Scalettar, an A.M.A. trustee: "It contributes very little to the * debate. The American health-care system needs to be improved, but it works." That reaction may say as much about medical politics as about medical policy. Until recently the A.M.A. dominated the field. Now it is being challenged. Says Ball: "Other medical groups still believe in the politics of the past. That's when medicine could demand its way. The politics of the present and the future is when medicine and other elements of society sit down equally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Call for Radical Surgery | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

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