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JAMA. 1998;279:267.

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Last week's Resident Forum presented the resolutions and reports pertaining to graduate medical education adopted by the American Medical Association-Resident Physicians Section (AMA-RPS) at its Interim Meeting in December. This week we present the adopted resolutions and reports pertaining to public health, RPS procedures, and other issues.

Public Health Care Benefits called on the AMA to actively lobby federal and state governments to restore and maintain funding for public health care benefits for all legal immigrants.

Code Status Requirements for Nursing Home Residents stated that the AMA-RPS opposes any requirement that makes a patient consent to a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order as a condition of admission to a nursing home facility unless that facility is limited to palliative care. The resolution also asked that the AMA urge other medical agencies and associations to oppose any legislative or regulatory attempts that would allow a nursing home facility to require that a patient . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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