AMA Healthier Life Steps™ A physician-patient alliance for a longer, healthier life
AMA Healthier Life Steps™ A physician-patient alliance for a longer, healthier life
AMA Healthier Life Steps™ A physician-patient alliance for a longer, healthier life
AMA Healthier Life Steps™ A physician-patient alliance for a longer, healthier life
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Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and use of tobacco and alcohol are behaviors that can affect your good health significant y. Your doctor wants to help you choose a healthier lifestyle and achieve your own goals for:
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AMA Healthier Life Steps™ A physician-patient alliance for a longer, healthier life
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Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and use of tobacco and alcohol are behaviors that can affect your good health significantly. Your doctor wants to help you choose a healthier lifestyle and achieve your own goals for:
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Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and use of tobacco and alcohol are behaviors that can affect your good health significantly. Your doctor wants to help you choose a healthier lifestyle and achieve your own goals for:
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Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and use of tobacco and alcohol are behaviors that can affect your good health significantly. Your doctor wants to help you choose a healthier lifestyle and achieve your own goals for:
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and Gaalla have faced rampant racial discrimination at CMC. More impor- tantly, however, what has been most disturbing to these three physicians is that CMC’s actions have deprived car- diac patients in the Victoria area of the right to have their cardiologist called when they present to CMC’s emergency room complaining of chest pains, which in the opinion of these physicians has resulted in some patients suffering bad outcomes,” Mr. James said. Dr. Chandna says CMC’s claims are “a clear attempt to divert attention from their discriminatory misconduct.” “CMC’s own documents prove the
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pervasiveness of the discrimination at CMC. In light of the derogatory emails and memo from CMC’s leadership and the deposition testimony of CMC’s em- ployees, executives, board members, and even the Victoria County Commissioners, it is difficult to understand how anyone could attempt to deny that discrimina- tion is rampant at CMC,” Dr. Parikh said. Houston attorney Daniel M. McClure,
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Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity a d use of tobacco and alcohol are behaviors that can affect your good health significantly. Your doctor wants to help you choose a healthier lifestyle and achieve your own goals for:
New physician toolkit improves patient lifestyles, offers CME
Ask your doctor how you can participate in the AMA Healthier Life Steps™
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program. It will help you live a longer, healthier life.
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TMA brings you the AMA Healthier Life StepsTM
Ask your doctor how you can participate in the AMA Healthier Life Steps™ program. It will help you live a longer, healthier life.
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improve the health of your patients: eating healthy, increasing physical activity, quitting smoking, and reducing risky drinking. And, you can earn continuing medical education credit.
Check out the toolkit at
www.texmed.org/lifesteps.
AMA Healthier Life StepsTM
Choose to be healthy. Talk to your doctor about AMA Healthier Life Steps.™
Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and use of tobacco and alcohol are behaviors that can affect your good health significantly. Your doctor wants to help you choose a healthier lifestyle and achieve your own goals for:
Choose to be healthy. Talk to your doctor about AMA Healthier Life Steps.™
Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and use of tobacco and alcohol are behaviors that can affect your good health significantly. Your doctor wants to help you choose a healthier lif style and achieve your own goals for:
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JD, of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, repre- sents CMC. He disputes allegations of racial discrimination by the hospital. “The hospital and its board members acted reasonably and properly and did not violate any constitutional rights of the plaintiff physicians. There is no evidence that the actions of this county- owned hospital and its board in adopt- ing a resolution to close the cardiology department was the result of any racial discrimination or was motivated by any- thing other than a desire to provide qual- ity medical services to the community. The allegations of racial discrimination are simply not true,” Mr. McClure said. The case will go to trial once the ap- peals of the rulings on pretrial motions are completed. “We are confident that a jury will rec- ognize that the hospital has acted inap- propriately,” Dr. Chandna said.
AMA Healthier Life Steps™ A physician-patient alliance for a longer, healthier life
AMAAMA Healthier Life Steps™ A physician-patient alliance for a longer, healthier life
Healthier Life Steps™ A physician-pat ent alliance for a longer, healthier life
Choose to be healthy. Talk to your doctor about AMA Healthier Life Steps.™
n Healthy eating n Reducing risky drinking n Quitting smoking n Increasing physical activity
Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity a d use of tobacco and alcohol are behaviors that can affect your good health significantly. Your doctor wants to help you choose a healthier lifestyle and achieve your own goals for:
Ask your doctor how you can participate in the AMA Healthier Life Steps™
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n Healthy eating n Reducing risky drinking n Quitting smoking n Increasing physical activity
n Healthy eating n Reducing risky drinking n Quitting smoking n Increasing physical activity
program. It will help you live a longer, healthier life.
AMA Healthier Life StepsTM
Choose to be healthy. Talk to your doctor about AMA Healthier Life Steps.™
Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and use of tobacco and alcohol are behaviors that can affect your good health significantly. Your doctor wants to help you choose a healthier lifestyle and achieve your own goals for:
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Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and use of tobacco and alcohol are behaviors that can affect your good health significantly. Your doctor wants to help you choose a healthier lif style and achieve your own goals for:
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Organized medicine to the rescue
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AAPI Vice President Jayesh Shah, MD, of San Antonio, says Brown v. Gaalla will pave the way for physicians to seek help when their interests in patient care
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don’t align with the interests of hospi- tals. AAPI serves to facilitate and enable Indian-American physicians to excel in patient care, teaching, and research and to pursue their aspirations in profession- al and community capacities. He says the case is an unfortunate re- minder that some international medical graduates aren’t treated fairly or equally. A 2009 AMA survey provides some in- sight into the discrimination experi- ences of those graduates. Of the 3,211 graduates who responded, 49 percent indicated they’d experienced discrimina- tion when applying for residency. More than 25 percent reported discrimination against them when seeking employment. Dr. Shah adds that this case illustrates the importance of physician involvement in organized medicine. “Backing from organized medicine gives individual physicians some stand- ing. Anytime a single physician is having a problem, he or she may feel powerless. It’s comforting for physicians to know they can turn to their state and national organizations for help,” Dr. Shah said. Stephen R. Permut, MD, a Delaware family physician on the AMA Board of Trustees, is a member of the Litigation Center Executive Committee. He stresses the most important aspect of the case is that the physicians involved, regardless of their ethnicity, were trying to do what was best for patients.
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Gaalla were uncomfortable doing what the hospital wanted them to do. As the hospital tried to circumvent clinical deci- sions, it became an ethnic issue,” he said. Dr. Permut compares the Victoria phy- sicians’ lawsuit with CMC to the biblical battle between David and Goliath. “TMA and AMA can come to the aid of a group of physicians like this and provide them with legal expertise to protect the delivery of medical care and quality of care. Without this type of as- sistance, large organizations would just run roughshod over the entire practice of medicine and health care delivery,” Dr. Permut said.
AMA Healthier Life Steps™ A physician-patient alliance for a longer, healthier life
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Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and use of tobacco and alcohol are behaviors that can affect your good health significantly. Your doctor wants to help you choose a healthier lifestyle and achieve your own goals for:
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program to help you
Ask your doctor how you can participate in the AMA Healthier Life Steps™
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Check out the toolkit at
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Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and use of tobacco and alcohol are behaviors that can affect your good health significantly. Your doctor wants to help you choose a healthier lifestyle and achieve your own goals for:
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New physician toolkit improves patient lifestyles, offers CME
TMA brings you the AMA Healthier Life StepsTM
improve the health of your patients: eating healthy, increasing physical activity, quitting smoking, and reducing risky drinking. And, you can earn continuing medical education credit.
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