Address the primary care shortage and make the AMA more relevant
It saddens me to proclaim that the American Medical Association (AMA), the once-venerable organization that has advocated for the interests of physicians and patients alike since its founding in 1847, is on the precipice of irrelevancy. Membership has dwindled such that only 1/4 of physicians now belong to its ranks.
The attendant decrease in social and political influence that accompanies this decrease in membership arguably compromises the ability of the AMA …
