Topic in Focus: Health Care Equity

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6 reasons to join the AMA
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Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, on healthy holidays, bivalent boosters, vaccine inequities & kids and COVID

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about how to stay healthy during the holidays with infectious disease expert, Peter Hotez, MD, PhD.

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Infectious Diseases
AMA Update
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Physicians must be empowered to put patients first: AMA president Jack Resneck Jr., MD

Obstacles to care emerge from prior auth, Medicare cuts and politicized exam rooms. President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, details how AMA has doctors’ backs.

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Leadership
Moving Medicine Podcast
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The 10 most-read medical ethics articles in 2022

The most popular articles published this year in the AMA Journal of Ethics covered the medical-dental divide, health equity and more.

Ethics
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Eliminating racial bias in medicine is an obligation we all share

Action is needed now to ensure that pulse oximetry devices convey accurate and reliable results in all patients, regardless of skin pigmentation.

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
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Providing hospital level care at home with Narayana Murali, MD [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about hospital-level care at home.

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Payment & Delivery Models
AMA Update Podcast
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Providing hospital level care at home with Narayana Murali, MD

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about hospital-level care at home.

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Payment & Delivery Models
AMA Update
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Q&A: This Latina ob-gyn helps other physicians know their worth

Claudia López, MD, wants physicians from historically excluded racial and ethnic groups to be properly valued in training and within health care.

Health Equity
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AMA President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, responds to disinformation, politicization of medicine [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the response to disinformation and the politicization of medicine.

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Prevention & Wellness
AMA Update Podcast
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AMA President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, responds to disinformation, politicization of medicine

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the response to disinformation and the politicization of medicine.

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Prevention & Wellness
AMA Update