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What the American Medical Association hopes you never learn about its

true history

 

 

To most Americans, the concept of " nonprofit " goes hand-in-hand with

trust. If a person or an agency isn't driven by money, they seem more

likely to be trustworthy and unbiased. They should have the public's

best interests at heart, right?

 

The American Medical Association (AMA) is a nonprofit agency whose

mission is " to be an essential part of the professional life of every

physician and an essential force for progress in improving the

nation's health, " according to the AMA's website. It makes you wonder,

then, why the AMA gladly accepted huge sums of advertising fees from

tobacco companies who advertised heavily in its flagship journal,

JAMA, throughout the 20th century.

 

The AMA claims to support " progress, " but history shows that the AMA

has worked diligently to block much in the way of real progress in

order to control medicine and shut out competition. Consider

chiropractic medicine, which is categorized as an " alternative "

treatment by most Americans. It involves healing the human body

through adjusting the spinal column and other musculoskeletal

structures in the body. More than 60,000 chiropractors are practicing

in the United States today, and 10,000 students are studying to become

doctors of chiropractic medicine, or DCs. It is a legitimate medical

practice that often solves medical problems conventional medicine can't.

 

As an agency that proclaims itself to be concerned with improving the

nation's health, the AMA has a duty to accept the field of

chiropractic medicine as having proven medicinal value. But history

shows just the opposite. Until recently, the AMA viewed chiropractors

as competition and tried to destroy the practice of chiropractic

medicine in its entirety. In When Healing Becomes and Crime, Kenny

Ausubel writes, " For over 12 years and with the full knowledge and

support of their executive officers, the AMA paid the salaries and

expenses for a team of more than a dozen medical doctors, lawyers and

support staff for the expressed purpose of conspiring (overtly and

covertly) with others in medicine to first contain, and eventually,

destroy the profession of chiropractic in the United States and

elsewhere. "

 

This was not speculation. The actions taken by the U.S. Court of

Appeals 7th circuit support Ausubel's accusation. In 1990,

chiropractic doctors Chester A. Wilk, James W. Bryden, Patricia B.

Arthur and Michael D. Pedigo won a landmark antitrust lawsuit against

the AMA. The court ruled that the AMA had violated the Sherman Act by

" conducting an illegal boycott in restraint of the trade directed at

chiropractors generally, and at the four plaintiffs in particular. "

This 1990 verdict against the AMA followed three other antitrust cases

against the association in 1978, 1980 and 1986, all of which were settled.

 

The fact that the AMA tried to eliminate the profession of

chiropractic is fairly well known in the medical community. But there

are other skeletons in the AMA's closet that aren't as well known.

Have you ever heard of Morris Fishbein? The University of Chicago's

Center for History of Science and Medicine is named after him. He was

editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) from

1924-1949. Oh, and he was a racketeer, too.

 

Fishbein apparently operated the AMA for the sole purpose of

dominating medicine and discrediting anything he could not control. He

also masterminded a scam where he determined what products were fit to

carry the AMA's " seal of acceptance " and then accepted money from the

manufacturers of those products in exchange for permission to use the

AMA seal.

 

But in reality, the association had no facilities in which to conduct

tests of foods or drugs to evaluate their so-called " fitness. " Gaining

the seal was merely a matter of paying Fishbein shady advertising fees

to feature the products in AMA publications. Those fees were in fact

" protection " fees paid to keep AMA membership. As editor of JAMA,

Fishbein had full control over what information reached the public and

what did not.

 

Thanks to Fishbein, you most likely haven't heard of the Rife Beam

Ray. It is a holistic treatment for cancer and infectious diseases.

Fishbein single-handedly stifled its research when he learned of the

technology. " Sadly, the research was suppressed by medical authorities

under the covert direction of Morris Fishbein … who sought to buy into

and control the use of the Rife Beam Ray, " writes Richard Gerber,

author of Vibrational Medicine. " Fishbein (who was later convicted of

racketeering charges) was spurned by Rife [creator of Beam Ray

treatment] when he attempted to buy into his company. In response,

Fishbein decided that if he could not control the therapy, he would

suppress it. "

 

Although Fishbein's legacy is tainted with corruption and his misuse

of an agency the public trusts, he is remembered by many as the AMA's

spokesman for medical orthodoxy, which advocates sticking to what is

commonly accepted, customary or traditional.

 

Take the case of Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Dallas, which was the world's

largest private cancer center in the 1950s. Harry Hoxsey, the clinic's

founder, was a self-taught healer who treated cancer patients with

herbal folk remedies that proved amazingly effective.

 

" A Dallas judge ruled in federal court that Hoxsey's therapy was

'comparable to surgery, radium and x-ray in its effectiveness, without

the destructive side effects of those treatments', " writes Dr. John

Heinerman in Natural Pet Cures. " [Hoxsey] faced unrelenting opposition

and harassment from a hostile medical establishment. [but] even his

archenemies, the American Medical Association and the Food and Drug

Administration, admitted that his treatment could cure some forms of

cancer. " Despite the courts' approval of Hoxsey's treatment, the

Dallas clinic was shut down in the 1950s at the end of the McCarthy

Era. " The AMA, NCI (National Cancer Institute), and FDA organized a

'conspiracy' to 'suppress' a fair, unbiased assessment of Hoxsey's

methods, according to a 1953 report to Congress, " writes Heinerman.

 

But that was all in the 50s. Surely the AMA has improved with time,

right? Perhaps not. According to a 1998 article in The New York Times,

the AMA paid Sunbeam Corp. $9.9 million to avoid a breach-of-contract

trial with the company after pulling out of a five-year,

multi-million-dollar endorsement deal. The AMA would have made

millions of dollars in royalties by endorsing Sunbeam's blood pressure

monitors, humidifiers and other products, but the association backed

out of the deal after being criticized because it had no plans to test

the products. The AMA had basically made a profit-making deal to

endorse products they had no plans of testing beforehand. The AMA only

pulled out once the public got wind of the deal.

 

Does this situation sound familiar? It sounds a bit Fishbein-esque;

although Fishbein's " seal of acceptance " program was abandoned in 1955

after a lawsuit was brought against the AMA. It was settled out of

court – much like the Sunbeam suit.

 

After the settlement with Sunbeam, the AMA said it was " now fully

focused on its historic mission to serve America's patients and the

quality of American medicine. " What, then, had been its focus before

the Sunbeam settlement? Was it making money? Was it controlling what

medical information is " fit " to reach the American public?

 

Despite the fact that the AMA is stated to be a nonprofit association,

it nevertheless has a troublesome history of focusing on money and

control. Even its longtime campaign against chiropractic medicine

appears grounded in money-making motives, since the association was

attempting to eliminate orthodox medicine's " competition. "

 

Today, the AMA boasts that its core purpose is " to promote the science

and art of medicine and the betterment of public health. " The AMA

further claims " only the AMA has the national voice, the reputation

and the stature to be a strong advocate for physicians and their

patients. "

 

Reputation? For those inclined to place trust in the " reputation " and

" stature " of the AMA, just take a look at the association's history.

In doing so, you will find an organization operated with questionable

ethics.

 

Even today, the AMA continues to make decisions obviously designed to

protect organized medicine, not patients. For example, the AMA is

right now engaged in the following actions:

 

* Refusing to support the ban of direct-to-consumer drug

advertising, a dangerous phenomenon that is partly responsible for the

vast over-prescribing of prescription drugs that are right now killing

100,000 Americans each and every year.

* Continuing to support the prescribing of antidepressant drugs to

children, even though such drugs are now clearly linked to violent

thoughts and suicidal behavior and have been banned from use in

children in the U.K.

* Continuing to accept tens of millions of dollars each year in

advertising funds from drug companies whose products dominate the

pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Many of the

drugs advertised in JAMA are, in fact, the very same drugs that are

right now killing tens of thousands of Americans each year, according

to senior drug safety researchers at the FDA. This massive funding of

the AMA by drug companies creates a clear conflict of interest.

 

The experts speak on the AMA and Fishbein

Judge Getzendanner ruled, " I conclude that an injunction is necessary

in this case. There are lingering effects of this conspiracy; the AMA

has never acknowledged the lawlessness of its past conduct and in fact

to this day maintains that it has always been in compliance with the

antitrust laws. " The AMA was forced to circulate the contrite Order of

Injunction through medical journals, hospitals, and many other

outlets, and to cease and desist from obstructing the professional

rights of the chiropractic profession. The conviction marked the third

time in the century that the AMA was found guilty of antitrust

violations for conspiracy and restraint of trade. The medical

association was first convicted in 1937 under Dr. Fishbein for trying

to destroy an autonomous doctors' group applying cost-cutting health

delivery and insurance in Washington, D.C. It was again found guilty

in 1982 by the Federal Trade Commission—a decision upheld by the

Supreme Court, just as the earlier conviction was. This time the

verdict confirmed the AMA's decades-long, systematic violation of

antitrust statutes.

When Healing Becomes A Crime by Kenny Ausubel, page 265

 

Cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, the Journal's biggest single

advertiser, also ran into some problems. Blitzing the AMA Journal and

thirty-one state and regional medical journals, the start-up tobacco

company was eager to publicize its innovative use of diethylene glycol

as a hygroscopic agent (to retain moisture), in place of the glycerin

used by other manufacturers. Philip Morris pegged its campaign on

hyping the breakthrough that its cigarettes were consequently " less

irritating to the throat. " When the corporation approached the Journal

with its ads, Dr. Fishbein courteously advised it how to go about

conducting acceptable scientific testing to validate its

unsubstantiated claims and thereby qualify. The cigarette manufacturer

was eager to link its product with health benefits, and Dr. Fishbein

saw a vast new opportunity for revenues from nonmedical products,

despite the fact that by this time in the 1930s medical journals were

already publishing studies associating smoking with lung cancer. The

company completed its testing at the Columbia University College of

Physicians and Surgeons with findings that the cigarettes with

diethylene glycol caused three times less swelling than other brands.

The company used these studies to launch its medical ad campaign,

while supplying free smokes to doctors. One Journal ad read, " Patients

with coughs were instructed to change to Philip Morris cigarettes. In

three out of four cases, the coughs disappeared completely. When these

patients changed back to cigarettes made by the ordinary method of

manufacture, coughs had returned in one third of the cases. This

Philip Morris superiority is due to the employment of diethylene glycol. "

When Healing Becomes A Crime by Kenny Ausubel, page 90

 

The AMA was also composed almost entirely of male doctors and there

were many swipes at women in Fishbein's writing. It is interesting

from a sociological point of view that nutrition (see related ebook on

nutrition) and herbalism were opposed, in part, because they were

associated with women. For example, Fishbein considered Eclecticism

" the apotheosis of the old grandmother and witch-doctor systems of

treatment. " It arose out of " the medical practice of an old-woman herb

doctor. " Herbal remedies, built up over decades of careful

observation, were mockingly derided as " veritable vegetable soups " .

Fishbein considered anything traditional in medicine to be abhorrent.

He saw the botanical drugs of the late 19th century as " almost a

replica of the herbals of the 17th and 18th century Europe. " ...Of

course, the vast majority of phytochemicals now known to reside in

plants and herbs (many with unique physiological effects) were

undreamed of in Fishbein's day. To put it colloquially, he was simply

blowing smoke. While the AMA was successful in eliminating most

competition, Fishbein became concerned, and then obsessed, by " the

worst cancer quack of the century, " Harry Hoxsey.

Herbs Against Cancer by Ralph W Moss PhD, page 75-76

 

One of the landmark days in the recent history of alternative medicine

in the U.S. was August 27, 1987. On that day, District Judge Susan

Getzendanner found the American Medical Association (AMA) and fourteen

associated parties guilty of waging a conspiracy against chiropractors

to contain and eliminate them entirely, in violation of the Sherman

Antitrust law. …the fourteen litigators probably cost AMA at least $15

million.

Physician by Richard Leviton, page 28

 

Fishbein's early success combating quackery revealed to him a gold

mine of limitless possibilities. In rapid-fire succession he cranked

out three books: Fads and Quackery, Medical Follies, and The New

Medical Follies. " As one reads the rolls of fakirs down through the

ages, " Fishbein gleefully penned, " one becomes almost convinced of the

doctrine of transmigration of souls. " Dr. Fishbein also utilized the

" Devil theory of history, " as one observer put it, exemplified by his

quackdown. In Medical Follies, he dubbed the profession of

chiropractic a " malignant tumor " whose theory was " so simple that even

farm-hands can grasp it. It has been said that osteopathy is

essentially a method of entering the practice of medicine by the back

door. Chiropractic, by contrast, is an attempt to arrive through the

cellar. The man who applies at the back door at least makes himself

presentable. The one who comes through the cellar is besmirched with

dust and grime; he carries a crowbar and he may wear a mask. " Under

Dr. Fishbein's direction, the AMA Bureau of Investigation's quack

files swelled to a prodigious 300,000 names.

When Healing Becomes A Crime by Kenny Ausubel, page 88

 

....Even the American Medical Association (AMA) was complicit in

suppressing results of tobacco research. In 1964, the Surgeon

General's report condemned smoking, however the AMA refused to endorse

it. …

Death By Medicine by Gary Null PhD, page 25

 

…. By the 1950s, the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Dallas was the world's

largest private cancer center, -with branches in seventeen states.

Born in Illinois, the charismatic practitioner of herbal folk medicine

faced unrelenting opposition and harassment from a hostile medical

establishment. Nevertheless, two federal courts upheld the

'therapeutic value' of Hoxsey's internal tonic. Even his archenemies,

the American Medical Association and the Food and Drug Administration,

admitted that his treatment could cure some forms of cancer. A Dallas

judge ruled in federal court that Hoxsey's therapy was 'comparable to

surgery, radium, and x-ray' in its effectiveness, without the

destructive side effects of those treatments.' But in the 1950s, at

the tail end of the McCarthy era, Hoxsey's clinics were shut down. The

AMA, NCI [National Cancer Institute], and FDA organized a 'conspiracy'

to 'suppress' a fair, unbiased assessment of Hoxsey's methods,

according to a 1953 federal report to Congress. "

Natural Pet Cures by Dr John Heinerman, page 81

 

The campaign was wildly successful and established Philip Morris as a

major tobacco player, until, in 1937, seventy-two people died as a

result of using a drug called Sulfanalamide Massengill. With help from

the AMA itself, the toxic agent was determined to be diethylene

glycol. Dr. Fishbein hit the ground backpedaling. He defended his

advertiser in an editorial by saying " There is no evidence that the

ordinary use of diethylene glycol in industry, or as an ingredient in

the manufacture of cigarettes, is harmful. " The company was so

grateful that it offered him a retainer for his services, which he

refused, tipping his editor's public health hat. Other cigarette

manufacturers quickly followed suit in their entry into the medical

market using physician testimonials. More Doctors smoke Camels than

any other cigarette was the slogan at Camel's exhibit at the 1947 AMA

convention. Only in the 1950s, when overwhelming evidence of the

causation of lung cancer by smoking reached the public, did the

Journal stop accepting tobacco ads, though Dr. Fishbein was by then

serving as a paid consultant to the Lorillard tobacco company. Through

its Members' Retirement Fund, the AMA continued to own tobacco stock

in the seven figures until the mid-1980s. Numerous physicians

complained of other high-pressure tactics from Chicago. Dr. George

Starr White, a respected physician who lectured extensively to doctors

and reputedly had the largest private practice in the country,

described how two doctors from AMA headquarters approached him with a

proposition.

When Healing Becomes A Crime by Kenny Ausubel, page 91

 

The AMA could not survive on membership dues alone, and without the

income secured by him, the Association would undoubtedly flounder. The

key to financial solvency for the organization has been its monthly

publication, the AMA Journal. It was begun in 1883 by Dr. Simmons as a

last-ditch effort to save the infant association from bankruptcy. Its

first press run was 3,500 copies and sold at a subscription rate of

five dollars per year. But it was anticipated that the bulk of the

revenue would be derived from advertisers. By 1973, under the tight

control of Managing Editor Dr. Morris Fishbein, it had a print run of

almost 200,000 copies each month and had extended its publication list

to include twelve separate journals including the layman's monthly,

Today's Health. Altogether the AMA now derives over ten million

dollars per year in advertising, which is almost half of the

Association's total income. Who advertises in the AMA Journal and

related publications? The lion's share is derived from the

Pharmaceutical Manufacturer's Association whose members make up

ninety-five percent of the American drug industry.

World Without Cancer by G Edward Griffin, page 274

 

The National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) is widely considered

the unofficial propaganda arm of the American Medical Association.

After a federal court ruling that found the AMA and other medical

organizations had conspired to disseminate misinformation about

chiropractic in an attempt to destroy its " competition, " the NCAHF

became the front man for the attack.

Under The Influence Modern Medicine by Terry A Rondberg DC, page 143

 

When Dr. Fishbein took the stand under cross-examination, the digging

done by Hoxsey's lawyers paid off. Under oath, Dr. Fishbein made

shocking admissions. He failed anatomy in medical school. He never

completed his internship before going to work at the Journal. He never

practiced a day of medicine or treated a single patient in his entire

career. Dr. Fishbein was sweating profusely by the time he left the

stand. His definition of a quack as " one who pretends to medical skill

he does not possess " now reflected back in an unseemly mirror.

When Healing Becomes A Crime by Kenny Ausubel, page 117

 

One may ask why no one has heard of the Rife Beam Ray if it had such a

high success rate in treating cancer and infectious diseases. Sadly,

the research was suppressed by medical authorities under the covert

direction of Morris Fishbein, a powerful editor of JAMA (the Journal

of the American Medical Association) who sought to buy into and

control the use of the Rife Beam Ray. Fishbein (who was later

convicted of racketeering charges) was spurned by Rife when he

attempted to buy into his company. In response, Fishbein decided that

if he could not control the therapy, he would suppress it.

Vibrational Medicine by Richard Gerber MD, page 515

 

… The American Medical Association had just been convicted in federal

court of a " conspiracy to destroy and eliminate " the chiropractic

profession. " The court judgment was unequivocal. " For over twelve

years and with the full knowledge and support of their executive

officers, the AMA paid the salaries and expenses for a team of more

than a dozen medical doctors, lawyers, and support staff for the

expressed purpose of conspiring (overtly and covertly) with others in

medicine to first contain, and eventually, destroy the profession of

chiropractic in the United States and elsewhere. " Also convicted with

the AMA were the American College of Surgeons and the American College

of Radiologists.

When Healing Becomes A Crime by Kenny Ausubel, page 263

 

Historically, this was a period in which the AMA had recently

established its hegemony over American medicine. It was headed by

Morris Fishbein, a pugnacious physician who was to make himself

infamous in the eyes of many advocates of unconventional cancer

therapies for his attacks on Gerson, Hoxsey, and other pioneers of

unconventional therapies. It is no surprise to me that Fishbein, faced

with congressional hearings inimical to conventional cancer treatment

and AMA hegemony, went on the attack. The details of the process by

which the AMA destroyed Gerson's professional reputation have been

described by Ward and others. Gerson lost his hospital affiliation and

was denied malpractice insurance:

Choices In Healing by Michael Lerner, page 612

 

The Journal, after all, solicits advertisers to pay top dollar for its

pages, whose 750,000 circulation still commands the greatest market

share of doctors (including fifteen international editions in 150

countries). The lure of advertising profits continues to compete with

the impartiality of " scientific medicine. " The AMA medical publicity

machine Dr. Fishbein founded is running in perpetual overdrive today.

The " JAMA Report, " a video news release, goes out weekly on satellite

to every TV network and local station in the United States, reaching

between 25 and 110 million viewers. Most major newspapers routinely

scan JAMA for breaking stories, as do wire services and radio. The AMA

also floods about 2,500 press outlets worldwide with weekly e-mails

and faxes. The credibility of the AMA's vaunted Code of Ethics, which

ostensibly puts the profession of healing above business, is in

tatters today. In 1998 the AMA once again was mired in negative

publicity as the Seal of Acceptance experienced its latest

devaluation. After the AMA granted the Sunbeam corporation an

exclusive product endorsement for the manufacturer's medical devices

without even testing them, the medical association was set to receive

millions of dollars in licensing fees, which it planned to use to

offset declining membership dues. Outrage from the medical community

and other competing companies crashed the nakedly commercial

transaction. The mass media roasted the AMA's signature cupidity.

When Healing Becomes A Crime by Kenny Ausubel, page 331

 

Historian Harris Coulter, PhD, has called Eclecticism " a more

sophisticated system of practice drawing on the same intellectual and

philosophical sources " as Thomsonianism (86). However, they had no

systematic theory of diagnostics or pharmacology, and basically

accepted allopathic medicine's systems, substituting their own

vegetable cures. Regular and Eclectic physicians competed for the same

clients and generally despised each other. JAMA editor Morris

Fishbein, MD, called Eclecticism " the apotheosis of the old

grandmother and witch-doctor systems of treatment " (132). He

championed chemotherapy and denied any utility to herbs, whatsoever.

Herbs Against Cancer by Ralph W Moss PhD, page 39

 

In 1912, 1921 and 1936, the AMA issued three volumes called Nostrums

and Quackery. These described the " evils " of patent medicines, which a

few years before had been a mainstay of the Journal of the American

Medical Associations revenue. In 1927, Morris Fishbein, MD, the editor

of JAMA, issued a popular book that included an " Encyclopedia of Cults

and Quackery. " Fishbein saw " cults " everywhere. It is amusing that he

even considered beauty parlors to be part of the medical cult

phenomenon. And he filled page after page with descriptions of cults

from Aero- to Zonotherapy. " The appeal of the bizarre is strong even

to enlightened men, " wrote the enlightened Fishbein. " To a public

educated to a belief in the black art, magic, alchemy, and the

miracles of the saints, the unusual necessarily has an absolute

fascination. Medicine in this way became inordinately complex and

chaotic " . Fishbein and his colleagues set out to make medicine simple

and well organized, by centralizing everything under the control of

the AMA. They especially aimed at the destruction of Eclecticism and

its heirs. This set the stage for the great battle of the 20th century

concerning herbs and cancer, the Hoxsey saga.

Herbs Against Cancer by Ralph W Moss PhD, page 48

 

Throughout Hoxsey's era, organized medicine denied any link between

diet and cancer. As Dr. Morris Fishbein contended, " There is no

scientific evidence whatsoever to indicate that modification in the

dietary intake of food or any other nutritional essentials are of any

specific value in the control of cancer. " Science has since

contradicted him. In general terms, contemporary research has shown

that the Hoxsey diet does directly serve important anticancer functions.

When Healing Becomes A Crime by Kenny Ausubel, page 211

 

Over the years Fishbein not only established himself as the gifted

editor of the most widely read medical journal in the United States;

he also learned how to extend his editorial position, how to project

his opinions nationwide. He became, as the saying went in those years,

a " personality. " TIME referred to him as " the nation's most

ubiquitous, the most widely maligned, and perhaps most influential

medico. " In addition to his development of JAMA as an editorial and

personal voice, Fishbein also continually railed against " quackery. "

Textbook of Natural Medicine Volumes 1-2 by Joseph E Pizzorno and

Michael T Murray, page 35

 

In a brief twenty years, the AMA came to dominate medical practice

through brute financial force, political manipulation, and

professional authority enhanced by rising public favor with

" scientific " medicine. The AMA emerged as the supreme arbiter of

medical practice, making binding pronouncements regulating even the

most picayune details. American medicine surged forward as a

profit-driven enterprise of matchless scope. By the time Dr. Morris

Fishbein assumed the mantle of Dr. Simmons, who had himself started

out as a homeopath, the AMA was at the helm of a strapping new

industry flying the allopathic flag. The code word for competition was

quackery.

When Healing Becomes A Crime by Kenny Ausubel, page 291

 

Rife's discovery was mysteriously burned to the ground. Rife was

dragged through the California court system on trumped-up charges. So

powerful were Fishbein's connections to major medical groups of the

day that many doctors who were successfully using the Rife Beam Ray

had to cease their use of it for fear of being blacklisted. Because

the Rife Beam Ray was suppressed by greedy, unscrupulous people, this

cure for cancer was buried and nearly forgotten. It turns out that

Rife was not the only researcher experimenting with using an

electromagnetic field device to treat cancer.

Vibrational Medicine by Richard Gerber MD, page 516

 

Dr. Fishbein's crusade to eliminate the irregulars played no small

part in the AMA's financial success by throttling economic

competition. While member dues accounted for half the AMA's revenues,

the balance flowed from the Journal, now the most profitable

publication in the world. Flush with revenues, it soon became known as

" the tail that wagged the dog. " In addition, the Journal owned or

controlled another half-dozen medical journals along with the

thirty-five state society journals, with advertising revenues of over

$2 million, a huge sum in those days.

When Healing Becomes A Crime by Kenny Ausubel, page 89

 

The AMA's core mission of preserving the power, privilege, and

financial prosperity of doctors has established it as an organization

" notorious for confrontation, ultimatums, and hardball politics " .17

Its political action committee, AMPAC, has given over $100 million

over the last twenty years to 83 percent of federal congressional

representatives and senators. The AMA actually owns the very building

in the nation's capital that the government leases for its federal

political action committee monitoring program.

When Healing Becomes A Crime by Kenny Ausubel, page 330

 

Morris Fishbein became a lot more to the AMA than his title of

Managing Editor would suggest. He was its chief executive and business

manager. He brought in the money and he decided how it was spent. His

investments on behalf of the Association were extremely profitable, so

the grateful membership could not, or at least dared not, complain too

bitterly. One of the reasons for this investment success was that over

ten-million dollars of the organization's retirement fund had been put

into leading drug companies.

World Without Cancer by G Edward Griffin, page 274

 

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about its true history

 

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