AMA House of Delegates Report:
2013 Annual Meeting
By: Jeffrey Kaufman, MD, FACS
The following report is reproduced, in part, from Dr. Jeffrey
Kaufman’s July 2013 submission to the AACU Board of Directors.
The full version is available at www.aacuweb.org.
Despite concern that the American Medical
Association (AMA) represents a minority of
American practicing physicians, it remains the
most important voice for the interests of medicine in the country today. When politicians in
Washington refer to organized medicine, they
rarely mean the AACU, AUA, ACS or other
specialty groups. They mean the AMA. No
matter what disagreements we have with the
AMA, it’s important that urology be well
represented at the House of Delegates (HOD), the democratic policycreating arm of the organization.
If organized urology is unable to defend itself because of inadequate
representation, we would soon see our interests trampled in the House
of Medicine and the Halls of Congress. Represe