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What Sparked Your Interest in Policy Work as a Teenager?
The American Medical Association has been around for 176 years. Its policy is made by its House of Delegates, which includes people from all across the political spectrum. "It's actually quite fun to watch that sausage get made," says AMA President Alex Gorski.
The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest professional association of physicians in the United States, comprising more than 270,000 clinicians across all medical specialties. It is involved in all aspects of American medicine, from establishing standards of care, to reforming medical education, to lobbying for health care policies. Our guest in this episode is Jack Resneck Jr., MD, chair of the department of dermatology at the University of California San Francisco and President of the AMA from 2022 – 2023. In this conversation, we explore Dr. Resneck's personal journey in medicine, how the AMA is addressing physician burnout, how the AMA is coming to terms with its own history with race relations, how digital health is transforming medicine, how health care reimbursement rates are determined, and how doctors can play a more active role in advocating for their own work.
In this episode, you will hear about:
In this episode we discussed several reports and articles, including:
The Flexner Report, a 1910 survey of the medical profession that was used to standardize medical education.
How Being a Doctor Became the Most Miserable Profession by Daniela Drake.
The Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, a recently-passed legislation aimed at helping physicians.
Follow Dr. Resneck on Twitter @JackResneckMD.
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