AACU Sentinel Vol. 2013 Issue 02 - Summer 2013 | Page 4

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