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AMA house of delegates: line drawn in war with trial lawyers.(News)
CHICAGO -- Everyone deserves medical care--even trial lawyers.
The American Medical Association's House of Delegates embraced this idea by swiftly rejecting a controversial resolution that sparked the ire of physicians and caused a public relations upheaval long before the meeting even began.
In what he referred to as his "infamous" resolution, Dr. J. Chris Hawk III, who is a general surgeon with the South Carolina delegation, asserted that it wasn't unethical to refuse care to plaintiffs' lawyers and their spouses for nonemergency situations.
The intent of the resolution's language was to get the AMA to change its course on liability reform and "to get the attention of trial lawyers" in the hopes they might work with physicians to fix the civil justice system, he said.
"National efforts have failed, and state successes have been few and far between," Dr. Hawk added.
In other resolves. Dr. Hawk asked the AMA to organize a national task force or town meeting to reform the civil justice system or get medical professional liability moved to an alternative dispute system, and to continue the AMA's efforts to reform the health care system.
Although some delegates understood the frustrations behind Dr. Hawk's resolution, most argued during committee debate that the resolution made it seem as if physicians didn't want to be held accountable for their mistakes.
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