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The American Medical Association, with headquarters at 515 N. State St. in Chicago, is the nation's largest doctor group. Founded in 1847, the AMA is a trade association that advocates on behalf of physicians. In June of each year, the group meets in Chicago for its annual policy meeting, where doctors' recent debates have put the group on record on a variety of issues. At the AMA, consensus and a focused agenda have become more important as the organization tries to move beyond incidents that hurt membership. One major problem was an embarrassing marketing deal with Sunbeam Corp. in the late 1990s. That deal, in which Sunbeam would have paid the AMA to endorse its products, ended with the A...
The American Medical Association, with headquarters at 515 N. State St. in Chicago, is the nation's largest doctor group. Founded in 1847, the AMA is a trade association that advocates on behalf of physicians. In June of each year, the group meets in Chicago for its annual policy meeting, where doctors' recent debates have put the group on record on a variety of issues. At the AMA, consensus and a focused agenda have become more important as the organization tries to move beyond incidents that hurt membership. One major problem was an embarrassing marketing deal with Sunbeam Corp. in the late 1990s. That deal, in which Sunbeam would have paid the AMA to endorse its products, ended with the AMA paying $10 million to get out. Although overall membership is still down slightly to nearly 240,000, the group says membership has stabilized somewhat. The group credits a re-allocation of its $20 million marketing budget in 2005 to showcase the organization as being in touch with everyday physicians and their patients. In recent years, the AMA has put considerable effort behind stopping attempts to cut Medicare payments to doctors.
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John S. Croucher, hospital engineer
John Stewart Croucher, a retired hospital assistant engineer and World War II naval veteran, died of a stroke Tuesday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Bel Air resident was 90.
Born in Baltimore and raised on Eastern Avenue in Highlandtown, he was a...Tags: Fishing, Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Harford County
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Dr. Frank Anthony Faraino, surgeon
Dr. Frank Anthony Faraino, a retired Baltimore thoracic and vascular surgeon whose career spanned more than four decades and who performed the first pacemaker implantation in Maryland, died Saturday of renal failure at his Timonium home.
He was 90....Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics, General Practitioners, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland, College Park
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Not enough doctors
The Supreme Court's ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, expected in June, will determine the future for countless Americans. Health care reform debates have elevated the plight of millions of uninsured Americans to the national...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, General Motors Corp., General Practitioners, Colleges and Universities, Medicare
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Helicopters help save lives, Hopkins study finds
Severely injured patients are more likely to survive if transported by helicopter rather than ambulance, according to new research by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine that adds fuel to the debate over flying patients to receive care. The...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities, Transportation Accidents, University of Maryland, College Park, Research
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Dr. Raymond L. Markley Jr.
Dr. Raymond L. Markley Jr., a retired Baltimore gynecologist whose specialty was female urology, died March 4 of pneumonia at Greater Baltimore Medical Center.
The former longtime Towson resident who was residing at Oak Crest Village, was 89.
The son of...Tags: Endometrial cancer, Hospitals and Clinics, Charles Street, University of Maryland, College Park, U.S. Army
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The wrong fix for Medicare
Medicare is in desperate need of reform. Program costs are spiraling out of control and threatening to bankrupt the country. Here in Maryland, on average, each Medicare enrollee costs about $11,400 per year — that's a thousand dollars higher than...
Tags: Baltimore County, Healthcare Provider, Government Health Care, General Practitioners, Peter Orszag
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Nation suceeds in reducing its trans fat intake
The campaign to limit the amount of trans fats people consumer appears to have made a dent. A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that levels of trans-fatty acids in the blood of white American adults has dropped...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Heart Disease, Food and Drug Administration, Disease Prevention, Health Organizations
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Mark Midei fights for medical license, exoneration
It took 25 years for Dr. Mark Midei to build his reputation and less than two for it to come crashing down.
In the spring of 2009, he was a superstar cardiologist with a seven-figure salary and a staff that adored him. By late April 2011, he was...Tags: York (York, Pennsylvania), U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Hospitals and Clinics, Concerts, Medicare
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Alejandro Rodriguez
Dr. Alejandro Rodriguez, former director of the division of child psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who also conducted pivotal studies on autism and other developmental disorders in children, died Friday of heart failure at his...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Behavioral Conditions, Teaching and Learning, Stanford University, Colleges and Universities
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Baltimore court is a magnet for same-sex parents
The rows of wooden benches were filled with seven families for adoption day in Baltimore City Circuit Court last month.
A pair of gay men seeking to adopt a baby. Three lesbian couples, two with twins. Two single moms with two kids between them.
And...Tags: Minority Groups, Montgomery County (Maryland), Adoption, Family, Parkville
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Maryland should embrace gay adoption
It's gratifying that same-sex couples in Maryland who are seeking to adopt have found a welcome reception in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Because of a city precedent and a uniform attitude among judges here that sexual orientation should not be a...Tags: Minority Groups, Adoption, Family, Judges, Justice System
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Bahrain's brave health care workers deserve support
The United States continues to ignore the thwarted Arab Spring in Bahrain. Recently, a quasi-military court in the small Gulf state sentenced 20 doctors and nurses to up to 15 years in jail. The charge against them? Treating injured demonstrators opposing...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Demonstration, Nursing, Injuries and Wounds, Bahrain
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