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Professionalism and the New American Medical Association

John J. Ring, MD

JAMA. 1991;266(12):1694.

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As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a doctor. I love being a doctor. I love this profession. I love my work with the American Medical Association.

Because of the path we have charted for ourselves in the past few difficult years, the American Medical Association is now a new association, built on the prodigious strengths of our previous history, ready to remedy what deficiencies there may have been, ready to meet the challenges we have before us now.

I believe the course the new AMA has chosen is the right road for medicine: the course of professionalism, of patient advocacy, and of personal sacrifice. It is the way of helping all doctors be better doctors—not necessarily richer, not necessarily more powerful, not necessarily more authoritative—but better doctors. As a result, what you see now is a more open AMA, a less confrontational AMA, an . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Presented to the Annual Meeting of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill, June 26,1991.

Reprint requests to American Medical Association, 515 N State St, Chicago, IL 60610 (Dr Ring).

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