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Article: Illinois doctors give AMA till '91 to clean up its act
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 9, 1990
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Though angry about financial scandals at the American Medical
Association, Illinois doctors chose Sunday to give the AMA a chance
to reform itself rather than quitting the organization.
At its annual meeting in Rosemont, the 15,000-member Illinois
State Medical Society directed its board to continue pressuring the
AMA to clean itself up and to report back in 1991, when a break with
the AMA will be reconsidered.
"The message we are sending to the AMA is that our concerns
about financial irregularities at the AMA are no tempest in a
teapot," said Dr. Harold Jensen, chairman of the Illinois state
society's board.
"What we do is dependent upon what the AMA does to straighten
itself out," ...