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6 reasons to join the AMA
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AMA supports removing blood quantum from enrollment questions

The AMA will urge medical schools to remove discriminatory questioning regarding blood quantum according to new policy adopted today at the interim meeting.

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Jack Resneck Jr., MD, at the 2022 Interim Meeting
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Physicians must be empowered to put patients first: AMA president

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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James L. Madara, MD, at the 2022 Interim Meeting
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AMA CEO: Focused plan has produced 10 years of results

A decade-long strategic effort has helped reshape medicine for the 21st century, says AMA Executive Vice President and CEO James L. Madara, MD.

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James L. Madara, MD, address at the 2022 Interim Meeting of the HOD

In an address to the AMA House of Delegates at the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting, James L. Madara, MD, discusses how the AMA's strategic plans have endured. Access the recording and transcript of the speech.

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Jack Resneck Jr., MD, address at the 2022 Interim Meeting of the HOD

In an address to the AMA House of Delegates at the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting, Jack Resneck Jr., MD, discusses what unites physicians. Access the recording and transcript of the speech.

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AMA president condemns disinformation, government interference in medicine

At today's opening session of the 2022 Interim Meeting of the HOD, AMA President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, outlined the challenges facing physicians and patients.

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Nov. 11, 2022: National Advocacy Update

Bipartisan House letter coincides with launch of APM coalition and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

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2022 Interim Meeting
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2022 AMA Interim Meeting: 6 issues to watch

Track the big health care policy proposals that physicians and medical students will consider at the House of Delegates’ meeting Nov. 12–15.

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Time to reinforce ties between patients, doctors and public health

Family physician Frederick M. Chen, MD, MPH, is the AMA’s new chief heath and science officer. Learn what gives him hope for medicine’s tomorrow.

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