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Bottom line: value: how a recently approved reorganization of the Federation of Medicine will benefit you

Article Abstract:

The recommendations made by the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates on reorganizing the Federation of Medicine aim to improve the responsiveness of national and state professional medical organizations to physicians' needs. They entail increasing the accountability of these organizations to physicians by widening the role of the latter in selecting representatives making the AMA House of Delegates larger. The recommendations also stipulate that rules for advocating policy be established to make the Federation a more effective lobbying force.

Editorial

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Some fresh solutions for an age-old question

Article Abstract:

The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates' recommendations on the Federation of Medicine outline ways the AMA and its analogs at the state and county levels can coordinate their activities to better serve patients' and physicians' needs. Proposals include plans to better define the relationship of the various associations to one another, to organize efforts to recruit special-interest physician organizations into the Federation of Medicine, and to change the rules governing physician representation in the AMA House of Delegates.

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AMA vows to bring science into late-term abortion debate

Article Abstract:

The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates will remain neutral on the issue of late-term abortions until it is able to bring appropriate practice guidelines and sound scientific grounding to the debate. Until the guidelines are developed, the AMA house will continue to support its policy that abortion, in any form, is a medical matter and should be decided between a patient and physician.

Health Care and Social Assistance, HEALTH SERVICES, Surgical Procedures NEC, Surgery, Ethical aspects, Abortion

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