Routine Screening Community of Practice: Workflows

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Routine Screening Toolkit Community of Practice Workflows
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How doctors can help patients with low health literacy

Patient understanding is essential to achieving better health outcomes. Learn more about the physician’s role.

Access to Care
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5 Min Read

6 ways doctors can use their voices to help science get heard

On TV and social media, in churches and in the community, physicians must help tell the truth on COVID-19 vaccination, the pandemic and more. Learn how.

Infectious Diseases
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Try these 7 equity-focused language options to engage patients

Learn how the words doctors use—and the narratives behind them—can have life-altering consequences for the patients and communities they serve.

Health Equity
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Who should decide where palliative surgery is right next step?

Learn how physicians navigate the tough decisions and unknown outcomes of this underappreciated, and often misunderstood, facet of palliative care.

Ethics
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ACOG, AMA joint statement on filing to the Supreme Court on SB8

In new amicus brief, leading medical organizations urge the Supreme Court to lift the appeals court's decision in Texas SB8.

Press Releases
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Uphold injunction on Texas law putting bounties on doctors’ heads

Learn how Texas SB 8 infringes on the patient-physician relationship and harms patient care.

Judicial Advocacy
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Unconstitutional attack on reproductive health must not stand

Mississippi’s attempt to limit reproductive health care infringes on the patient-physician relationship and impermissibly violates medical ethics

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
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Often overlooked, surgery can be a key element in palliative care

Learn with the AMA Journal of Ethics about how palliative surgery can improve quality of life without aiming to cure disease.

Ethics
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Rescinding Title X restrictions is a win for patients, physicians

The Biden administration move will restore access to family-planning services for millions of patients who have low incomes or no insurance coverage.

Judicial Advocacy