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Physicians must rise in coordinated response to COVID-19

Doctors understand the most important trait in a health emergency is the ability to remain calm. Let your training and your adherence to science guide you.

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Why AMA is investing in Chicago’s West Side to boost health equity

Factors outside the exam room drive disparate health care outcomes. Learn how the AMA will help finance a bid to promote well-being in an area with life expectancy far below the national average.

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Action needed now to prevent a new generation of nicotine addiction

Teens and young adults are most attracted to e-cig flavors, and are at higher risk of seeing addiction’s impact on their ability to learn, concentrate or control their impulses.

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AMA to Supreme Court: Rescinding DACA would harm health care

This case’s outcome could have a broad impact across our health system. That is why America’s physicians are speaking out.

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Preparing physicians for the world as it is

The effort to understand which conditions foster health—and which create inequities—must be reinforced in medical school and extend throughout a physician’s career.

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Women in medicine are trailblazers, advocates and leaders

Despite the inequities we face, women continue to excel at every level of medicine and account for half of all U.S. medical school graduates.

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Health reform: How to improve U.S. health care in 2020 and beyond

Health insurance should cost less and work better for those who already have it, and should be much easier to obtain for those who don’t.

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Why the AMA is committed to a diverse physician workforce

Texas Tech’s decision to no longer consider race in medical school admissions decisions is a setback to the profession’s efforts on diversity and health equity.

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New AMA anti-harassment policies the right step for the profession

We take a zero-tolerance approach to harassment. Complaints should be independently and promptly investigated according to the highest standards.

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