Moving Medicine

Kicking off 2022 with the AMA's "Look Forward/Look Back” series, AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with Todd Askew, the AMA's senior vice president of advocacy in Washington, D.C., about the AMA’s critical work in advocacy this past year and what advocacy issues physicians should watch for in the months ahead.    

 

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🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues

important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We

will meet this challenge together. Join us:

https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew 

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

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As we look back on 2021, it’s difficult to put into words all that our nation’s physicians have experienced this past year. AMA CXO Todd Unger shares a special end-of-year feature where physicians answer three questions and tell their own stories of 2021 ... in their words.  

 

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🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues

important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We

will meet this challenge together. Join us:

https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew 

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

📧 Sign up for #MorningRounds and free daily newsletters from the AMA:

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Peter Marks, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA, joins Susan R. Bailey, MD, immediate past president of the AMA, to discuss the data and recommendations for Pfizer, Moderna and Janssen booster shots. Dr. Marks walks through the safety and efficacy data supporting the recent authorization of the Pfizer pediatric vaccine for 5- to 11-year-old children.

This episode was part of an AMA webinar recorded prior to the emergence of the Omicron variant.  

 

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🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues

important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We

will meet this challenge together. Join us:

https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew 

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

📧 Sign up for #MorningRounds and free daily newsletters from the AMA:

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AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with Marielisa Cabrera-Sánchez, a second-year medical student at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine and this year’s AMA Research Challenge winner, about her $10,000 prize-winning research on COPD and her advice to other student researchers.  

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues

important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We

will meet this challenge together. Join us:

https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew 

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

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AMA CXO Todd Unger discusses the No Surprises Act and what it means for patients and physicians with Emily Carroll, JD, a senior legislative attorney for the AMA’s Advocacy Resource Center.

Stay up to date on all the latest advocacy news by subscribing to AMA Advocacy Update: https://www.ama-assn.org/advocacy-news  

 

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🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues

important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We

will meet this challenge together. Join us:

https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew 

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

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Peter Hotez, MD, PhD shares how physicians can be a voice of truth for patients and how to navigate social media given the prevalence of disinformation and misinformation across these channels. The pandemic has revealed so much about the expertise and resilience of our nation’s physicians—but it has also revealed the need, now more than ever, for elevating their voices.  

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues

important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We

will meet this challenge together. Join us:

https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew 

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

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AMA CXO Todd Unger and AMA Senior Vice President of Advocacy Todd Askew discuss what physicians need to know about new legislation that averts a Medicare payment crisis. Also covering, the AMA's role in this victory for patients, physicians and our health care system.    

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues

important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We

will meet this challenge together. Join us:

https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew 

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

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AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with John Whyte, MD, MPH, the Chief Medical Officer of WebMD in Washington, D.C., about his new book Take Control of Your Cancer Risk.

Take Control of Your Cancer Risk is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and a number of other retailers. Learn more here: https://www.webmd.com/takecontrol  

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues

important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We

will meet this challenge together. Join us:

https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew 

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

📧 Sign up for #MorningRounds and free daily newsletters from the AMA:

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Frank Clark, MD, wrote poetry in medical school to cope with depression. Now, with the strain of COVID-19, he crafts haiku.  

 

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🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues

important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We

will meet this challenge together. Join us:

https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew 

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

📧 Sign up for #MorningRounds and free daily newsletters from the AMA:

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AMA CXO Todd Unger discusses what medical students need to know about pursuing careers in private practice with Omar Maniya, MD, CEO of Maniya Health, in Hamilton, N.J.  

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues

important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We

will meet this challenge together. Join us:

https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew 

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

📧 Sign up for #MorningRounds and free daily newsletters from the AMA:

https://ama-assn.co/Newsletters 

💬 Follow #AMA on social media: https://ama-assn.co/Social