Frustrated AMA adopts sweeping policies to cut gun violence

apnews ^ | 6/12/2018 | LINDSEY TANNER

[spintreebob]

With frustration mounting over lawmakers’ inaction on gun control, the American Medical Association on Tuesday pressed for a ban on assault weapons and came out against arming teachers as a way to fight what it calls a public health crisis.

At its annual policymaking meeting, the nation’s largest physicians group bowed to unprecedented demands from doctor-members to take a stronger stand on gun violence — a problem the organizations says is as menacing as a lethal infectious disease.

The action comes against a backdrop of recurrent school shootings, everyday street violence in the nation’s inner cities, and rising U.S. suicide rates.

[spintreebob]

Doctors prescribe drugs that cause the opioid crisis. Doctors prescribe drugs that cause suicide. Doctors kill twice as many with provider acquired infections as are killed by guns ... including suicide.

So we see what the priority of the AMA is: Buy off the media so the media will not put attention on what doctors are doing wrong.

Of course, it isn't all doctors, a majority of whom choose to not belong to the AMA. But it is preciesly the type of doctor who is in the AMA that is guilty of the above.

[max americana]

the same AMA which was front and center when obamatard presented Obamacare..

[Paladin2]

apnews = oxymoronic

With the emphasis on moron.

[G Larry]

I’m reminded that that the AMA is more a political association than a medical one.

They don’t really speak for the medical profession.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

They’re going to address the STD crisis too, right? Because diseases like HIV, anal cancer, syphilis, and gonorrhea are destroying homosexuals. Not that I don’t mind of course, but the Left is all about protecting one of their protected classes.

[arkfreepdom]

Very few drs will do crap that the national organizations say to do. Read comments at the sites to see. I sure won’t and know few who will

[jospehm20]

Doctors should stick to being doctors. I do not give a damn what they think about guns.

[anton]

Death from falls =556,000. AMA policy on falls . . . .

[mrmeyer]

Problem is not guns it’s culture but we can’t talk about culture cuz that’s racist.

[piytar]

Go to Hell jerks.

[mylife]

Start arresting criminales..

[Blue Jays]

"...AMA, doctors, and guns..."

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If questioned by a doctor whether you possess guns and/or if there are guns in the house...don’t give a wisecrack answer.
Just calmly say, ”There are no guns in my home.” and and move to the next topic. Always strive to misinform when gungrabbers ask about guns.

[gogeo]

Frustrated, you say...

Doing that which will not solve the problem is a recipe for frustration.

For having successfully attended medical school, they don't seem to be too bright.

[RandallFlagg]

I'll listen to these folks before the AMA:

Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership

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Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S. Their figure, published May 3 in The BMJ, surpasses the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) third leading cause of death — respiratory disease, which kills close to 150,000 people per year...Fast facts:

• 10 percent of all U.S. deaths are now due to medical error.
• Third highest cause of death in the U.S. is medical error.
• Medical errors are an under-recognized cause of death.

Shouldn't doctors concentrate on medical errors, since a significant portion of them know absolutely nothing about guns?

[JayGalt]

It’s a shame we can’t get them to change the name of the organization. They are not interested in patient care only in promoting politics. The money trail would be instructive.

[ConservativeMind]

They should call gun ownership a disease.

They call everything else that, except sexual perversion...

[Fred Hayek]

During the ten years that I lived in Minnestoopid, doctors were getting more and more intrusive questioning about guns. It was evident that politics were becoming more important versus professionalism. I finally gave the politically correct answer “No, I have no guns! Guns are scary and icky!” in a soy boy metrosexual tone.

[TigersEye]

...the nation’s largest physicians group bowed to unprecedented demands from doctor-members...

Fewer than 17% of U.S. physicians belong to the AMA.

[Maudeen]

These doctors need to be more concerned about the drugs, procedures they are peddling that kill thousands across the country not to mention the unsanitary conditions in hospitals and doctors’ offices that exacerbate the issue of infection.