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To the Editor.—Those of us who have been long-time members of the American Medical Association (AMA) and grassroots practicing physicians attempting internal change within organized medicine must take exception to the article "For Our Patients, Not for Profits."¹ This article is an insult to the many physicians across the country who are vigorously working to carry out reform.

I have the privilege of serving as a delegate to the Organized Medical Staff Section of the AMA. I believe this section has made an outstanding effort to address the multitude of questions revolving around managed care and the debate between profit and not-for-profit medicine. I believe the efforts of the hundreds of physicians taking part in that forum serve physicians across the country better than publishing the sanctimonious and self-serving monologue from an ad hoc committee that can hardly be considered representative. Organized medicine once again must overcome the indifference . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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