Of all the problems doctors face today–onerous HIPAA regs, the painkiller prosecutions, battling with HMOs–you’d think the AMA would have more important things to spend its time on than putting out bogus polls about college kids on spring break and–the latest nonsense–voting on whether people can get “addicted” to video games.

Curiously, the AMA no longer makes its membership statistics public. I’d guess that’s because they aren’t doing so well. Most doctors I’ve talked to say the organization is a joke. One thing’s clear: It’s no longer an advocate for doctors. Or patients. It’s an advocate for the more militant wing of the public health industry.

This entry was posted on Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at 11:43 am by Radley Balko and is filed under Pain Treatment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.