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Op-Ed: AMA Needs To Go Bigger on Racial Justice


The American Medical Association (AMA) has never been a trailblazer on issues of social and racial justice.
As in society as a whole, attitudes at the AMA have changed, albeit at a glacial pace. In 2008, the AMA broke new ground and apologized for its long history of discrimination against Black physicians it didn t admit its first Black delegate to its policy-setting House of Delegates until 1950, more than a century after its founding and entered on what it calls a path of racial healing and reconciliation.
Thirteen years later, AMA leadership again felt a sting of conscience about past policies that kept Black medical doctors out of the mainstream of American medical politics. The target this time was the AMA s revered founder Nathan Smith Davis Sr., MD, LLD, who helped create the AMA and aimed to make it an arbiter for improving the standards of medical practice. ....

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