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Written by members of the AMA Physician Communications team.

Kavita Shah Arora, MD, MBE

Leadership

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Kavita Shah Arora, MD: Improving health, reducing disparities

AMA member Kavita Shah Arora, MD, applies evidence-based medicine and research to health care policy to improve health and reduce disparities.
Portrait of Hussein A. Antar

Leadership

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Hussein A. Antar: Passionately advocating for access to care

AMA member and medical student Hussein A. Antar is a passionate advocate for patients’ access to quality health care.

Leadership

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Shilpen Patel, MD: “A chance to make a difference every day”

AMA member Shilpen Patel, MD, is a physician leader, patient advocate, medical researcher and new technology developer.
Nicole D. Riddle, MD, an anatomical and clinical pathologist

Leadership

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3 Min Read

Nicole D. Riddle, MD: Striving for professionalism in practice

AMA member Nicole D. Riddle, MD, said her early exposure to the health care system led to her realizing that “medicine is what I wanted to do.”

USMLE® Step 1 & 2

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Kaplan USMLE Step 1 prep: What’s causing man’s fever, confusion?

Prep with help from Kaplan Medical. The case: A 72-year-old man with a history of diverticulitis is admitted to the ICU with chills, fever, malaise and confusion. What will his labs show?
Physician writing on a prescription tablet

Ethics

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4 Min Read

Untangling the medical ethics of prescribing opioids

Patient-centered decision-making can help physicians resolve ethical issues in pain management that arise when prescribing opioids or treating substance-use disorder.
Patient in bed with IV closeup

Ethics

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4 Min Read

End-of-life care: What’s the physician role in healthy dying?

Advanced-care planning, organ donation after circulatory death and the medicalization of death are just a few of the salient ethical issues in end-of-life care. Find out more.
A man reading the back of a pill package in a pharmacy.

Access to Care

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3 Min Read

U.S. Justice Department should block CVS-Aetna merger

If allowed, the merger would likely harm competition in many health care markets, to the detriment of patients.