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- Amid doctor shortage, NPs and PAs seemed like a fix. Data’s in: Nope https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/scope-practice/amid-doctor-shortage-nps-and-pas-seemed-fix-data-s-nope 5 comments
- What doctors wish patients knew about long Covid https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/what-doctors-wish-patients-knew-about-long-covid 205 comments
- Advancing Health Equity: A guide to language, narrative, and concepts [pdf] https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf 3 comments
- Magic the Gathering for Med Students http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2010/04/26/bisa0426.htm 10 comments
- Medicine’s great resignation - 1 in 5 doctors plan exit in 2 years http://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/medicine-s-great-resignation-1-5-doctors-plan-exit-2-years 430 comments financialindependence
- Opioid prescriptions decrease for 10th consecutive year, but deaths continue to increase. https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/overdose-epidemic/physicians-progress-toward-ending-nation-s-drug-overdose-epidemic 39 comments worldnews
- AMA Urges Congress to Oppose Amended Health Care Reform Bill: "It will likely lead to patients losing their coverage." -- https://www.ama-assn.org/ama-urges-congress-oppose-amended-health-care-reform-bill 15 comments politics
- The largest association of US doctors says Trump’s health care plan will weaken our defense against disease outbreak https://www.ama-assn.org/sites/default/files/media-browser/public/washington/ama-letter-on-ahca.pdf 4 comments politics
- AMA says American Health Care Act Critically Flawed https://www.ama-assn.org/ama-says-american-health-care-act-critically-flawed 7 comments politics
- Is this discriminatory? Some hospitals require that senior physicians get a fitness-for-duty evaluation as a condition of medical staff privileges (xpost /r/medicine) http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/07/30/prsa0730.htm 16 comments law
- Does anyone here honestly believe that abortion is a bigger problem than unwanted children who are far more likely to be abused, undereducated and imprisoned? http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2011/06/20/gvsa0620.htm 209 comments politics
- Journal of American Medical Association: "If physicians want evidence of climate change, they may well find it in their own offices. Patients are presenting with illnesses that once happened only in warmer areas." http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2011/04/04/edsa0404.htm 11 comments science
- Did you know that the AMA rates insurance companies? In 2008, Medicare denied almost 7% of the claims made against it. In 2009, the figure was 4%. In both years, Medicare rejected a higher percentage of claims than most private insurers [PDF] http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/368/2009-nhirc-long.pdf 18 comments reddit.com
- Aetna Dropping Coverage of Over 600,000. CEO: "The pricing we put in place for 2009 turned out to not really be what we needed to achieve the results and margins that we had historically been delivering." Oh yeah, they spent $2 million on lobbying in 2009 alone. http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2009/11/30/bisb1130.htm 12 comments reddit.com
- There is no health insurance "market". United, WellPoint, Aetna, Cigna, GHI/HIP, Capital District Physicians' Health Plan, Independent Health, Excellus, MVP Health Care, HealthNow and Guardian Life Insurance all use the same database to set rates and drive down physician compensation http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2009/07/13/bisb0713.htm 12 comments politics
- Solo physician sued $400,000 for communicating via written notes instead of providing a sign language interpreter. http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2009/01/05/prca0105.htm 47 comments reddit.com
- Drug reps come to physicians' offices bearing not just samples, gifts and meals, but an armamentarium of psychological and sales techniques aimed at changing prescribing habits, says a former Eli Lilly and Co. detailer. http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/09/03/prsb0903.htm 5 comments reddit.com
- The Threat of an Avian Flu Pandemic is Over-Hyped http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/16106.html 3 comments reddit.com