Pressure Builds for Reform

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
Robert L. Wears ◽  
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
American Medical Association ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
American Medical ◽  
Tort Reform ◽  
National Patient ◽  
The Media ◽  
Organized Medicine ◽  
The Right

Horrific medical accidents widely circulated in the media: Betsy Lehman, Boston Globe health reporter died from a chemotherapy overdose; in Florida, Willie King had the wrong leg amputated. These scandalous stories killed organized medicine’s efforts at tort reform because no one could reasonably support it after such injuries. In the aftermath, the first Annenberg Conference on error in medicine was proposed to help medicine “get on the right side of the issue.” Lucian Leape and James Reason provided keynote addresses, symbolizing a partnership between medicine and cognitive psychology. The Ben Kolb case presented at Annenberg spurred organized medicine to begin serious safety efforts, and the National Patient Safety Foundation was started by the American Medical Association. A second, even larger Annenberg Conference was held with substantial input from nonclinical safety scientists.

Abraham Jacobi Award Address, April 14, 1992 The Medical Home: Pediatric Practice and Child Advocacy in the 1990s

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calvin C. J. Sia
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Medical Association ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
American Medical ◽  
First Year ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Child Advocacy ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Active Interest ◽  
Organized Medicine

It is with the deepest humility that I accept the Abraham Jacobi Award from the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr Jacobi represented the best in pediatrics, a practitioner in New York in 1853, Professor of Diseases of Children at New York Medical College in 1859, Chairman of the AMA Section Council on Pediatrics, founder and president of the American Pediatrics Society, and president of the American Medical Association. He was perhaps best known as a child advocate. Dr Jacobi believed that physicians should take an active interest in public policy. At an early age he was, and remained throughout his life, what would now be termed a "troublemaker." He actively pursued legislation for women and children in Albany, the state capitol, and in Washington, DC. Throughout his long and productive life, he felt comfortable only when championing a good cause.1-4 It is truly an honor to receive an award bearing his name. Before I begin my address, I would like to pay personal tribute to my dear wife Kathie, who has stood by me for 40 years throughout my shortcomings as a husband and father, as I pursued my interest in organized medicine as a child advocate. She has suffered through long waits for late dinners because of my practice or meetings, the yardwork that was never done because of office or hospital emergencies, and cared for our family alone while I attended meetings on the mainland. I would also like to honor my mentor, the late Dr Irvine McQuarrie, who "fathered" me during my first year of pediatrics residency in Hawaii.

Organized Medicine on Trial: The Federal Trade Commission vs. the American Medical Association

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl F. Ameringer
Keyword(s):  
American Medical Association ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
American Medical ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Federal Trade Commission ◽  
Health Maintenance Organizations ◽  
Health Maintenance ◽  
Physician Advertising ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Organized Medicine

During the 1970s, the Federal Trade Commission took on the powerful American Medical Association, hastening the end of the medical profession's domination of the health-care industry. The pivotal confrontation was the FTC's administrative action (the “FTC proceeding”), commenced in 1975, against the AMA. According to the FTC, ethical restrictions on physician advertising, solicitation, and contract practice bore no reasonable relationship to procompetitive concerns, the touchstone of the FTC's public-interest calculus. By eliminating these restraints, FTC commissioners and attorneys cut the ties that bound rank-and-file physicians to their national, state, and local medical societies, thereby undermining the structure of organized medicine. Stripped of its organizing principles and enforcement mechanisms, the medical establishment weakly resisted the formation of large-scale provider networks and the integration of insurance products and delivery systems, known as health maintenance organizations or HMOs.

The American Medical Association as Reported in Six U. S. Dailies

1949 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-423
Author(s):  
Verne E. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
American Medical Association ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
American Medical ◽  
The State ◽  
State College ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
Organized Medicine ◽  
The University

Profound respect for organized medicine was shown by papers of widely different political views during period of anti-trust prosecution, according to analyses made for a master's thesis at the University of Wisconsin. The author is now instructor in journalism at the State College of Washington.

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