A hard look in the mirror: organized medicine tries to polish its public image

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Medical organizations are trying to improve the profession's public image, as polls reveal a low public opinion of doctors. Concerted efforts by the American Medical Assoc (AMA) include a corporate identity program, an increased public relations staff, an ad campaign profiling heroic physicians and a consumer health magazine. The AMA claims it will focus more on public health issues and less on doctors' financial interests, but the medical press is skeptical. The AMA and other associations are also trying to improve relations with the press.

Medicine, Public relations

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Philadelphia freedom: physicians find it hard to unify to battle HMOs

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Philadelphia, PA's quickly changing health care system is difficult for small providers. The city's health maintenance organizations (HMO) are highly competitive, which has led to price drops as managed care concepts sweep the city's health care market. The city's physicians are having difficulty dealing with the competitive pressures. Some of the concerns shown by various health care providers in Philadelphia towards increasing managed care competition are included.

HEALTH SERVICES, Health Maintenance Organizations, HMO Medical Centers, Analysis, Economic aspects, Health care industry, Managed care plans (Medical care), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Abortion training an issue for medicine, not legislation

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The American Medical Assn (AMA) House of Delegates, acting at the association's 1995 meeting, endorsed the availability of abortion training to obstetrics-gynecology residents and voiced its opposition to federal intervention into medical-education accreditation. Federal legislators have promised to introduce legislation to allow medical programs to ignore Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education standards on abortion training.

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Professional Organizations, Colleges and universities, Graduate & Professional Schools, Medical Associations, Abortion & Civil Rights NEC, Standards, Laws, regulations and rules, Political activity, Education, Abortion, Civil rights, Medical education, Gynecologists, Obstetricians, Medical societies

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