 merrie says: The following is a posting I presented along with the poll to the Sermo physician community on July 1st, 2009 First posted to the Sermo physician community on July 01, 2009: From the Founder: The Biggest Risk to US Physicians: The AMA As physicians, our first step in the health care debate needs to be clearing the air about who speaks for us on what topics. Today, I am joining the increasing waves of physicians who believe that the AMA no longer speaks for us. As the founder and CEO of Sermo, this is a considerable change of heart, given the high hopes that I had when we first partnered with the AMA over two years ago. The sad fact is that the AMA membership has now shrunk to the point where the organization should no longer claim that it represents physicians in this country. The AMA has drawn its power from the support of the physician community. The waning membership reflects our objection as the AMA has failed us consistently for over 50 years. Make no mistake, the debate within the AMA about how to stop their membership decline is not new. What is new is the lengths to which the AMA appears willing to go to deceive the public on this topic. The AMA routinely claims that their membership is 250,000 practicing physicians. At best, this is 25-40% of practicing US physicians and even that claim is based on some stretching of the truth. The 250,000 total includes a number of non-practicing constituencies, including medical students, residents, and subscribers of the AMA’s journals. Paying membership is generally accepted to be far lower. How much lower? Actual numbers are remarkably difficult to come by. Dr. Daniel Palestrant Founder ... Dr. Daniel Palestrant is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge-based Sermo, Inc, the largest physician-only online community. While training in surgery at Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital in Boston, MA, Daniel Palestrant recognized that continuing changes in the healthcare system had left physicians isolated from one and another. That’s what encouraged him to found Sermo. Sermo launched in 2006 as an online platform that allowed licensed US physicians to easily share insights and discuss medical trends. In just three years the Sermo physician community has now grown to over 100,000. Physicians log over 25,000 hours each week discussing everything from the latest medical tre... |
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