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AMA Pledges to Ramp up Work With Activists to Push Irreversible 'Sex Change' Mutilation of Children
By Mike Miller
| 12:15 PM on June 17,
In this episode of “Shocked? Me, Neither”…
The American Medical Association (AMA) has all but flushed the Hippocratic Oath down the toilet with its pledge to ramp up its support for (pick one, or more): “cross-sex medical interventions,” “gender-affirming care,” “sex-change operations,” or the irreversible mutilation of children's bodies.
The AMA’s House of Delegates passed a resolution on Monday in support of “gender-affirming care” for “youths with gender identity issues,” according to the Endocrine Society, the sponsor of the resolution. In a press release titled “AMA strengthens its policy on protecting access to gender-affirming care,” the organization said:
As political attacks on gender-affirming care escalate, it is the responsibility of the medical community to speak out in support of evidence-based care. Medical decisions should be made by patients, their relatives and health care providers, not politicians.
In the resolution, the AMA committed to opposing any criminal and legal penalties against patients seeking gender-affirming care, family members or guardians who support them in seeking medical care, and health care facilities and clinicians who provide gender-affirming care.
The AMA will work at the federal and state level with legislators and regulators to oppose such policies and collaborate with other organizations to educate the Federation of State Medical Boards about the importance of gender-affirming care.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Urological Association, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the American College of Physicians, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology, GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality and AMA’s Medical Student Section co-sponsored the Society's resolution.
This is not only madness; it is immoral. How many times have we read or said it?
Children want to be any number of things “when they grow up,” one day, and a different thing, the next. Toss in indoctrination in the public school system, and boom: confused boys think they want to be girls, and vice versa. So now we have the AMA jumping on the bandwagon with both pandering feet — and actively promoting the mutilation of young kids.
And the Hippocratic Oath? The modern pledge (written in 1964) reads, in part (emphasis, mine):
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
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If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
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If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
Is today's AMA making a mockery of the above oath? Hell yes, it is.
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As Ronald Reagan said:Trust but verify.That now applies to ones doctors with "verify" much more important than trust. heres the real truth about the AMA:
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Here's a take on the modern AMA,a money making machine that is losing members so badly they have to spend millions to try and attract anyone who will join.Its just another con partially owneed by big pharma.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/campbells-scoop/80583
Don't Believe AMA's Hype, Membership Still Declining
— Group focuses more on its own finances than physicians' real concerns, says Kevin Campbell, MD
by Kevin Campbell MD June 19, 2019
Last Updated June 20, 2019
Kevin Campbell, MD,opens in a new tab or window is a cardiologist based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and CEO of PaceMateopens in a new tab or window. In addition to his weekly video analyses on MedPage Today, he is the official medical expert at WNCN in Raleigh and makes frequent guest appearances on other national media outlets such as Fox News and HLN. The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author's.
heres Kevin Campbell:
The following transcript has been edited for clarity:
The American Medical Association had its annual meetingopens in a new tab or window this past week in Chicago. During their meeting of delegates they touted their self-proclaimed accomplishments and the fact that they have been growing in membership numbers in the last two years. Nothing could be further from the truth.
This is what the AMA has to say about its membership numbers:
They write that membership has been growing steadily over the last 3 years but then cleverly bury the part about how revenue on membership has decreased every year (at least for the last five years) because the "new members" are actually mostly group practices, students, residents, fellows in training, retirees, and so called "sponsored memberships" which have much lower average membership rates. Retirees, students, and residents are a large proportion of this so-called growth -- not practicing MDs.
According to publicly available records, it appears that the AMA has also spent more money each year on marketing efforts focused on member retention.
So, the bottom line is that the AMA is spinning the overall increase in membership but the organization fails to mention how many are actually practicing physicians. I expect that, in reality, they are likely losing more and more members each year. Remember the important rule from your Freshman statistics class when you attempt to analyze a database -- "garbage in equals garbage out." And as one of my mentors at Duke once said, "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything."
So let's break it down further and take a closer look at the AMA's membership numbers ... -- there are 1,341,682 physicians/medical students/residents/Fellows in the U.S. today -- there are 250,253 AMA members. According to the AMA's own numbers, 22.5% of AMA members are students and 24.7% are residents (this number in 2016 was 235,000 or 1/6th of America's physicians).
Yet students only make up 8.1% and residents, 10.4% in the U.S., so if you remove them from the AMA's published numbers, you get 1,093,472 physicians, and then remove the percentages of students and residents from the previous numbers I quoted, ultimately there are only 132,133 practicing physicians who are AMA members. That's 12.1%. A drop. A decline that has continued for decades.
It's an interesting angle that the AMA paints a picture of membership growth in their marketing literature but skirt the fact that it's essentially like a fraternity claiming growth by rushing tons of freshmen the first day they get to college, with not many of them ever becoming full dues paying members and staying active for the 4 years of college.
Beyond the membership spin -- What is it about the AMA that America's Doctors really detest?
-- The AMA touts itself as speaking for all of us -- but rarely listens to any of us -- they work to fill their own pockets with dollars from big pharma and government.
-- The AMA tends to have a narrow minded political view and works to stifle any dissenting opinions (in an effort to continue to align with the government agencies that line the pockets of AMA executives with taxpayer money)
-- The AMA has collaborated with the government to expand irrelevant and unfair payment codes (the hated CPT codes and ICD 10) -- this has significantly contributed to the disparity in pay for different specialties.
-- The AMA has spent more (of dues paying member money) than almost any other company on lobbying in the last 20 years -- to a tune of $347 million -- only the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Realtors have spent more.
-- The AMA receives nearly twice as much money from the U.S. government as it does from membership dues, and has since the Clinton Administration when the AMA signed on to support price controls for physician services -- in exchange for Washington leaving it to the AMA to decide how the shrinking pot of money for physician payments would be divided up between medical specialties. (Yes, this is all about how the self serving AMA determines CPT codes.) In 2010 alone, the AMA made 72 million in royalties and credentialing products sold to the U.S. government.
I think it is clear that the AMA is desperate. They are an organization that relies on government payments for its revenue -- which line the pockets of its executives. Membership is declining and the Majority of U.S. physicians DO NOT believe that the AMA represents their interests -- or the interests of their patients. Let's call a spade a spade -- the AMA is not the association for the U.S. doctor -- it's a money-making machine from the few who lead the way for the AMA in Washington D.C.