AMA Withdraws Resolution

The Town Talk reports that a proposal submitted by a physician to the the American Medical Association to endorse a physician's right to refuse care to attorneys (and their spouses) involved in medical malpractice cases drew an angry response at their annual meeting. The resolution left the AMA "a really big mess to clean up," said one neurosurgeon. The article also notes this story about a plastic surgeon in Mississippi who refused to treat a young lady's burn scars because her father, a state legislator, had voted against limiting damages in medical malpractice suits.

Posted by AJR at June 14, 2004 07:22 AM