{"id":582,"date":"2009-06-11T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2009-06-11T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T00:58:00","slug":"dr-chris-mccoy-dear-ama-i-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Chris McCoy: Dear AMA: I Quit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/dr-chris-mccoy\/dear-ama-i-quit_b_214318.html\">Dr. Chris McCoy: Dear AMA: I Quit!<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dear American Medical Association,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I recently had the opportunity to read your response to the Senate Finance Committee proposal [pdf] for health care reform, and it is clear to me that I cannot remain a member in your organization. Please remove my name from your membership rolls, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In reading the response, I was frustrated and disheartened by the fact that you couldn&#8217;t get through the second paragraph before bringing up the issue of physician reimbursement. This merely highlights how the AMA represents a physician-centered and self-interested perspective rather than honoring the altruistic nature of my profession. As a physician, I advocate first for what is best for my patients and believe that as a physician, as long as I continue to maintain the trust and integrity of the profession, I will earn the respect of my community. The appropriate financial compensation for my endeavors will follow in kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Read on. I agree with everything he says here, and yet, until the AMA House of Delegates meeting this week has concluded, I will withhold judgement and retain my membership.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If the <a href=\"http:\/\/cmhmd.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/health-care-reform-old-school.html\">floor fight at the House of Delegates takes shape as I predict<\/a>, the old (literally) guard will get reaffirmation of every anti-reform policy reaffirmed and get an anti- public option policy added and will force the AMA leadership (progressive as they might be) to act like the AMA of old and start fighting reform.<br \/><\/em><br \/><em>We&#8217;ll see. I have friends in leadership in AMA and they say it has changed.<br \/><\/em><br \/><em>We&#8217;ll find out very soon.<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chris McCoy: Dear AMA: I Quit!: &#8220;Dear American Medical Association, &#8220;I recently had the opportunity to read your response to the Senate Finance Committee proposal [pdf] for health care &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=582\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr. Chris McCoy: Dear AMA: I Quit!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76,44,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ama","category-physician-opinion","category-public-option"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}