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James M. Fuller, MD, JD

JAMA. 1998;279:1696.

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In today's clinical environment, physicians and other health care providers are not alone with patients in examining rooms or in emergency departments or operating rooms. Because of legislation and regulations that affect patient treatment, federal and state governments are present as well. Government plays an increasing role in our decision making; as resident physicians, we need to learn to make grassroots and political activism a part of our daily medical practice.

In the current session of Congress, hundreds of bills have been introduced relating to health care. Although many of these bills will never be debated on the floor, several initiatives currently under review by House and Senate committees could dramatically alter the practice of medicine. These include several bills seeking patient protections and improving health care for Americans.

Organized medicine has been integrally involved in the debate concerning health care. So far this year, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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