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25 unusual facts about American Medical Association


2nd Virginia Infantry

Dr. Hunter McGuire, who eventually would become Chief Surgeon of the Second Corps, amputating the arm of Stonewall Jackson after Chancellorsville, and the leg of Isaac Trimble after Gettysburg, as well as a founder of the Medical Society of Virginia and a president of the American Medical Association, initially enlisted as a private in Company F.

Abbey Bartlet

Her decision to medicate her husband, in violation of several American Medical Association rules, leads her to voluntarily give up her medical license for the duration of her stay in the White House.

American Society of Addiction Medicine

ASAM was admitted to the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates as a voting member in June 1988, and in June 1990 the AMA added addiction medicine (ADM) to its list of designated specialties.

American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

In addition, members are involved in advocacy of the society's goal on the national level through the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Medical Association, and other organizations dedicated to education and clinical care.

Carlos Manuel Chavez

The American Medical Association, and its convention in New York City, presented Chavez with a Scientific Award silver medal for his exhibit on transplantation in 1965.

Carrie Brady

Lexie tries to plead her case and apologize, but Carrie doesn't care and promises to pay Lexie back by reporting her to the hospital board and the AMA, upon which Lexie is subsequently fired.

Emergency contraception

In 1971, a New England Journal of Medicine editorial calling attention to previously published studies on the use of DES as a postcoital contraceptive at Yale University, and a large study published in JAMA on the use of DES as a postcoital contraceptive at the University of Michigan, led to off-label use of DES as a postcoital contraceptive becoming prevalent at many university health services.

Esomeprazole

At a conference of the American Medical Association, he said that Astra was using the new drug to overcharge consumers and insurance companies.

Exercise is Medicine

Exercise is Medicine is a nonprofit initiative launched by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American Medical Association (AMA).

George Waldbott

In this field he published several books and more than 200 scientific articles, many in American Medical Association journals.

Isaac Hays

Hays was among the founders of the American Medical Association, serving as its first treasurer and chairman of the Committee on Publications.

JAMA Pediatrics

JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) Pediatrics is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association.

Lourdes Heart institute

George Thayil MD FAMA(Card) FCCP FACC

Luke Fildes

In 1949, Fildes' The Doctor was used by the American Medical Association in a campaign against a proposal for nationalized medical care put forth by President Harry S. Truman.

New York County Medical Society

As such, it is part of the larger network of medical organizations which includes the American Medical Association and the Medical Society of the State of New York.

Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse

The Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse at the American Medical Association (AMA) was established by the temperance-oriented Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with an initial grant of $5 million, followed by more substantial funding.

Samaritan Institute

The Samaritan program has been acknowledged by the American Medical Association, the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, the President's Commission on Mental Health, and a number of major religious denominations.

Saskatchewan New Democratic Party

The fight to introduce Medicare in the province was intense, due to the opposition of the province's doctors who were backed by the American Medical Association.

Sermo

In May 2007, Sermo announced a partnership with the American Medical Association.

Thomas Percival

Percival's Medical Ethics served as a key source for the American Medical Association (AMA) code, adopted in 1847.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation

In 2011, the American Medical Association established three Category I CPT® Codes to be used for the reporting and billing of therapeutic repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment services.

Visual impairment

The American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment attempts to provide "a standardized, objective approach to evaluating medical impairments."

Wally Bear and the NO! Gang

The game was designed in cooperation with the American Medical Association and the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information.

Woodchipper

Thirty-one people were killed in woodchipper accidents between 1992 and 2002 in the US, according to a 2005 report by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Ziad Asali

He remains licensed to practice medicine in Illinois, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. He is a member of several medical societies such as the American Medical Association, the American Society of Internal Medicine and the American Academy of Medical Directors.


Deborah S. Cummins

Previously, she was the Associate Director of the Ethical Force Program at the American Medical Association and Senior Program Manager at the National Patient Safety Foundation.

Edmund S. Crelin, Jr.

Crelin was a member of the American Association of Anatomists, Sigma Xi, AAAS and AMA, served as associate editor of the Anatomical Record from 1968 to 1974 and was an editor for Gray's Anatomy

F. Mason Sones

Sones was honored with numerous awards during his career, including the American Medical Association's 1978 Scientific Achievement Award and the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 1969.

Joel T. Johnson

He is currently a member of the American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association and First Lutheran Church of Kearney and a former member of the Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce.

Kaiser Permanente

Meanwhile, during the war years, the American Medical Association (AMA) (which opposed managed care organizations from their very beginning) tried to defuse demand for managed care by promoting the rapid expansion of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield preferred provider organization networks.

National Patient Safety Foundation

The National Patient Safety Foundation began as an idea proposed in 1996 at a large conference on medical error that was organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower Medical Center in California and funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Peter Zanca

He was a Fellow of the American College of Radiology, member of the American Medical Association; the American Roetgen Ray Society; American Radiological Society; Radiological Society of North America; New York Academy of Science and the Texas Medical Association.

Rich Whitney

Whitney was involved in nationwide legal battles to regulate tobacco advertising, on behalf of the public health community, including the American Medical Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association and Public Citizen.

Screen-Free Week

More than seventy other organizations, such as the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and the YMCA, support the movement in the US.