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The American Medical Association, the nation's largest organization of physicians, apologized Thursday for its history of discriminatory policies toward African-American physicians, including those that effectively restricted membership to whites. > ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 9 days ago
Oakland Tribune Letter to the Editor To the Editor: Columnist Michael Millenson is right - all Americans need to get involved in the health care coverage debate, and the American Medical Association is providing them with the opportunity, regarding ... Source: online.wsj.com --- 11 days ago
The American Medical Association apologized for more than a century of "racial inequality" toward black physicians and for accepting racial segregation in the medical profession. ... Source: www.suntimes.com --- 2 days ago
The American Medical Association, like many other institutions the world around, has had a history it would prefer to forget. ... Source: blogs.suntimes.com --- 10 days ago
AMA's formal apology to black doctors for discriminatory polices that kept them from participating in the group was powerful and timely. ... Source: www.abc.net.au --- 9 days ago
The first round of public hearings into the Federal Government's proposed changes to Medicare begins in Perth today. ... Source: www.npr.org --- 9 days ago
The American Medical Association (AMA) is apologizing for years of discriminatory practices against African-Americans within the medical community. Dr. Ronald Davis, immediate past president of the organization, discusses what inspired the apology. Davis is joined by Dr. Carl Bell, a black doctor, who says the AMA still has a long way to go. ... Source: www.ksl.com --- 11 days ago
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Group reviews how black doctors were denied membership and support and says effects 'are still with us today' The nation's chief medical association apologized yesterday for decades of past discrimination against African-American physicians, when it effectively denied membership to many black doctors - which many believe has left a legacy of separate and unequal care. ... Source: www.valuemd.com --- 10 days ago
*from NATURALNEWS.COM* *AMA's president has pancreatic cancer* [edited for names] this may be reposted w/o names ... Source: www.rcuniverse.com --- 8 days ago
I want to buy a membership for my son. Can I fill out the online app and still charge it to my card? Edwin... ... Source: www.speedtv.com --- 3 days ago
Who has it tougher this weekend heading into today's AMA Superbike race at Laguna Seca, Ben Spies or Mat Mladin? ... Source: www.speedtv.com --- 7 days ago
The AMA Superbike Championship will share the spotlight with the superstars of the MotoGP World Championship this weekend at Laguna Seca. ... Source: www.komonews.com --- 11 days ago
The American Medical Association on Thursday issued a formal apology for more than a century of discriminatory policies that excluded blacks from participating in a group long considered the voice of U.S. doctors. ... Source: www.motorcycle-usa.com --- 2 days ago
Mat Mladin pushes his Superbike winning streak to two, the six-time champing getter the better of his young teammate and MotoGP wild card, Ben Spies. ... Source: www.paddocktalk.com --- 2 days ago
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2009 BASIC EQUIPMENT REGULATIONS FOR ROAD RACING COMPETITION Factory Superbike Equipment Regulations All machines eligible for participation in Factory Superbike must be approved by AMA Pro Racing and homologated by the manufacturer. All items n... ... Source: www.thedailystar.com --- 2 days ago
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by Jonathan Sidhu - Last Thursday, the American Medical Association apologized for its history of discrimination against African-American physicians. The apology comes on the heels of a JAMA paper published ($) by a panel of independent experts, which among other things detailed how the AMA worked to close down African-American medical schools. We spoke with one of the paper’s authors, Harriet A. Washington, who last year also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for “Medical Apartheid,” a history of medical experimentation on black Americans. Note: This is an edited transcript of the conversation. What did the AMA apologize for? The AMA apologized to black physicians specifically for a history of systematic exclusion of black physicians from the AMA and its constituent societies. In order to join the AMA for most of its history, you had to belong to a local medical society. Many of those local medical societies were closed to black physicians, particularly in the South. And this condition persisted right up to the Civil Rights era. The AMA countenanced this—it refused to interfere or penalize those societies. The AMA has also apologized for other decisions it made that marginalized black patients and physicians. Why was the JAMA paper pursued now? And you could tell me about the process of putting together this historical inquiry? In 2005, John Nelson, then-president of the AMA, visited the National Medical Association [wh ...