AMA statement on ongoing attacks on physicians treating COVID patients

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The following statement is attributable to:
Susan R. Bailey, M.D.
President, American Medical Association

“Throughout this pandemic, physicians, nurses, and frontline health care workers have risked their health, their safety and their lives to treat their patients and defeat a deadly virus. They did it because duty called and because of the sacred oath they took. 

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