
Physician Advocacy
The Clinical Excellence Podcast
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Physician Advocacy
Dr. Parker: I think advocacy is necessary because physicians do advocate as professional societies. The AMA is one of the top lobbyists in the country constantly advocating for our interests, particularly by maintaining our salaries to be very, very high or twice European counterparts. We work in a system that treats medical students and trainees in a very caustic, difficult manner. And so if you sort of accept all of these facts to be true, combined with our poor health outcomes as a country overall, I think it prompts one to consider what's the structure that I'm contributing to individually as a physician. Do I have ethical obligations to try to advocate for changes to that structure in my daily clinical practice?
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