Report from AAPS Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Kathryn Serkes, on the ground in Houston at the AMA meeting:
The AMA has security posted at entrances to Convention Center, so public will NOT be allowed access to the facility.
Our “shout out” at the AMA meeting here in Houston is set for later this afternoon. AMA could vote on emergency resolution to rescind the support of HR 3962. The resolution may be considered later today!
++CALL THE AMA OFFICE OR
++YOUR STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (CLICK HERE FOR LIST)
++AND LEAVE MESSAGE:
“Doctors — please support PATIENTS, not AMA leadership. NO on HR 3962.”
AMA main office in Chicago: (800) 621-8335 and service.followup@ama-assn.org
Additional AMA contact information, including email addresses, can be found here:
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=322
Here is the link to our statement from yesterday against the AMA endorsement:
Please pass the statement above and our new statement below to all that you can!
November 7
For immediate release:
AMA Has Chance to Rescind Support of HR 3962;
AMA Shout -out from public urges doctors to answer to PATIENTS not AMA leadership
HOUSTON, TX – Members of the AMA are trying a last-minute tactic to introduce an emergency resolution rescinding the AMA’s support of HR 3962.
“We want to remind physicians that they are responsible to their PATIENTS, not the leadership of the AMA,” said Kathryn Serkes, Director of Policy for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and Take Back Medicine, a coalition of other medical groups.
“If the AMA leadership ignores the public — their patients–it will set us back to the old days ‘Doctor knows best’ when patients were supposed to keep their mouths shut and do what the doctor ordered.”
This week, Take Back Medicine called for a public “Shout Out” at the AMA meeting, with doctors and patients to arrive with the Tea Party Express bus in a caravan following their rally at the Sam Houston Race Park in Houston.
Nov 7, Approximately 1:30pm – 2pm
Tea Party Express Bus leaves Sam Houston Race Park leading caravan to
George R. Brown Convention Center, downtown Houston