Article: Illinois doctors give AMA till '91 to clean up its act

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," ...

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