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All you need to know here is the AMA has been a reliable vessel of liberal ideas and political correctness -- it is an organization wholly in the thrall of every liberal idea that stumbles into view, and used to fancy itself a force for progressive change.

I don't think the organization has the credibilty any more to mount the kind of argument that is being pushed here -- too many of their own members would sit up and take notice if they tried it, and would promptly cancel their memberships.

One little known fact is how few physicians even belong to the AMA any more. For example,here in Illinois membership fell dramatically about 6 yrs ago when the parent organization decoupled county and state medical society membership from AMA membership. That is , it is now possible to belong to the county and state medical societies in Illinois without joining the national AMA. Many doctors took the opportunity to voice their disgust with the national organization, and let their membership lapse. It didn't help that that was about the same time that the AMA entered into a very stupid product endorsement deal with Sunbeam Corporation that embarassed many member physicians.

So I wouldn't look for this little twit psychiatrist from New York to be getting much traction with his loony ideas; the AMA front office is very much worried its going to lose more members if it strays from its central mission -- to promote the interests of its members, and to secondarily promote the advancement of medical knowledge through its educational arm.