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Physician Advocacy the Main Focus in Divided Congress | LA County News | physiciansnewsnetwork.com

Written by Physicians News Network | Feb 16, 2023 5:00:00 AM

The five elements of the AMA Recovery Plan for America’s Physicians top the organization’s advocacy priorities for 2023, but there are other areas in which the AMA will be pushing forward this year to remove obstacles to patient care.

“But as we all know, there are many other issues outside these five that negatively impact patients and physicians and that demand our attention and support,” AMA board chair Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, said during a panel discussion of the AMA’s 2023 federal and state advocacy agenda. The program was the latest installment in the AMA Advocacy Insights webinar series.

“We have an obligation to fight these battles on behalf of our patients and our profession, and physicians everywhere are looking to organized medicine to lead on these issues,” she said.

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