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Public health: The challenges and opportunities physicians face with Frederick Chen, MD, MPH
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Practice innovation strategies: Patient-centered care
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5 MIN READ

Real-world examples bring health systems science home

A textbook chapter advances key health systems science concepts by showing how organizations are working to implement them.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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May 31, 2018: Advocacy spotlight on AMA fights to preserve the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship

AMA fights to preserve the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship; read more about AMA's fight for family planning funding.

Advocacy Update
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Big players in health care work to tackle high BP in black men

For treating hypertension in African-American men, setting priorities is top agenda after a recent meeting between the AMA, American Heart Association and the Association of Black Cardiologists.

Hypertension
The White House
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AMA objects to attack on family planning services

Citing the need for unfiltered communication between doctors and patients, the AMA objects strongly to proposal to withhold family planning funding.

Advocating for Public Health
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AMA response to administration's attack on family planning services

AMA objects strongly to the administration’s plan to withhold federal family planning funding, which interferes with the patient-physician relationship.

Press Releases
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5 MIN READ

Simpler logins, voice recognition ease click fatigue at Yale

New initiatives at Yale help clinicians spend less time typing and more time caring for patients. Yale CMO and AMA member Ronald Vender, MD, details the course to beating burnout.

Digital
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4 MIN READ

Create a personal online physician brand that works

Developing an eye-catching online identity lets doctors control how they are perceived by their peers and community, and helps markets their skills to potential patients.

Physician-Patient Relationship
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Capt. Harold J. Rothenberg II, MD: The medical answer man

AMA member Harold J. Rothenberg II, MD, has delighted in helping patients and physicians-in-training achieve that “aha!” moment that can advance their lives and careers.

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Leadership
Members Move Medicine
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Essential steps to help patients of color control BP

Address these four barriers to help minority patients with hypertension lower their blood pressure, says cardiologist and AMA member Keith C. Ferdinand, MD.

Hypertension