Membership brings great benefits

AMA membership offers unique access to savings and resources tailored to enrich the personal and professional lives of physicians, residents and medical students.

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Improving the nation’s health requires candid discussion

HHS needs to issue detailed clarification of reported directive to restrict language in the agency’s budget documents.

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AMA president recaps 2017 agenda that put patients, physicians first

In his address at the AMA Interim Meeting, AMA President David O. Barbe, M.D., recapped an aggressive year of advocacy and accomplishment.

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To address burnout’s underlying causes, look to team-based care

Team-based approach can relieve physicians of tasks that drain joy from practice. It takes organizational leadership to make the necessary changes.

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AMA applauds nomination of Dr. Jerome Adams to be surgeon general

The AMA strongly supports the nomination of Dr. Jerome Adams to become the next Surgeon General of the United States

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Many influential physicians share common trait: AMA membership

AMA CEO James L. Madara, MD, and 25 other AMA members are included in a health care magazine's list of most influential physician executives and leaders.

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The AMA strongly opposes the Senate's health-reform proposal

Tens of millions could lose coverage, and a shortsighted Medicaid funding formula would threaten care for our society's most vulnerable patients.

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Selective view of past misses AMA role in shaping medicine's future

While views on health care have changed within the physician community during the AMA’s 170-year history, our mission has been unwavering.

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AMA membership up for 6th consecutive year: Annual report

Forceful efforts to fight insurance mergers, the opioid epidemic, prediabetes and hypertension are among the highlights in the AMA’s 2016 Annual Report.

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3 simple commitments can help solve medicine’s biggest challenges

Honesty, context and evidence are critical concepts that could help us reverse the opioid epidemic that takes the lives of one American every 15 minutes.

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