A Dying Organization Cries-out For Help

 The AMA has come out with a document: 

ADVANCING HEALTH EQUITY: A GUIDE TO LANGUAGE, NARRATIVE AND CONCEPTS

It does not start out auspiciously: It begins with a, "Land and Labor Acknowledgement" and goes downhill from there.

I don't plan to Fisk the whole document, but will put in this passage:

It is critical to address all areas of marginalization and inequity due to sexism,

class oppression, homophobia, xenophobia and ableism. Yet conversations about

race and racism tend to be some of the most difficult for people in this country

to participate in for numerous reasons, including a lack of knowledge or shared

analysis of its historical and current underpinnings, as well as outright resistance

and denial that racism exists. Given the deep divides that exist between groups in

the United States, understanding and empathy can be extremely challenging for

many because of an inability to really “walk a mile in another’s shoes” in a racialized

sense. Collectively, we have an opportunity and obligation to overcome these

fissures and create spaces for understanding and healing.

Yes, a group of actual doctors are using terms which literally mean the irrational fear of homosexuals and aliens, respectively.

Various sources indicate that the AMA only represents about 1/6th of practicing physicians. Link  Link

This ought to cause some soul-searching and possibly reform for a moribund organization.  Naturally, they come to the opposite conclusion:

The AMA should move away from chasing individual members, says Tenery. One alternative, he suggests, is to make AMA membership mandatory for physicians who wish to join state medical associations. The state associations would benefit by having a voice in a stronger national body, and the AMA could remain economically viable by receiving a portion of the dues collected at the state level.

“The state members would be recruiters and dues collectors,” says Tenery. “It would remove the competitive nature of recruitment.”

Tenery, once headed the AMA ethics council and has also been the head of the Texas Medical Association, stating: 

"“The Texas Medical Association is in a much stronger position to meet my needs in Texas,” says Tenery. “As they say, all politics is local.”"