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-===== American Medical Association =====
+====== American Medical Association ======
-The American Medical Association (AMA) is the main professional trade group representing American doctors. The AMA publishes a medical journal, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
+The **American Medical Association** (**AMA**) is the main professional trade group representing American doctors. The AMA publishes a medical journal, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
-==== History ====
+===== History =====
 In the early half of the 20th century, [[petrochemical]] giants organized a coup on the [[medical research]] facilities, hospitals and universities. The [[Rockefeller]] family sponsored research and donated sums to universities and medical schools which had drug based research. They further extended this policy to foreign universities and medical schools where research was drug based through their "International Education Board".
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-=== Eliminating Competition ===
+==== Eliminating Competition ====
 In his 1994 book, [[The Assault on Medical Freedom]], author [[P. Joseph Lisa]] gained access to secret files in the AMA's Chicago Department of investigation under the guise of collecting information to expose "mental health quackery." In the process, he uncovered hundreds of AMA photocopies of memos, minutes and other documents. In a subsequent ten year investigation, he found little evidence of "quackery" and much evidence of an organized propaganda campaign to discredit alternative medicine and foreign drugs.
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-== The Assault On Medical Freedom ==
+=== The Assault On Medical Freedom ===
 by P. Joseph Lisa 1994Research shows that during the first one hundred years of the AMA's existence it formed councils and committees which sat in judgement of its economic competitors. These committees would "investigate" the various alternative health-care systems and would then report on their findings and make determinations and recommendations that the public should stay away from such "quackery." The CCHI and the AMA's Committee on Quackery continued to serve this function from 1963 to 1975. However, when the writing was on the wall, Doyl Taylor saw that his propaganda department was "going down for the count." He apparently took steps to see that his work continued even if he weren't around to supervise the AMA's campaigns against the "quacks."
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 and safeguards are in place to prevent the publication of false, inaccurate, or misleading
 information.*** ((https://web.archive.org/web/20130406191251/http://www.ama-assn.org/resources/doc/washington/open-door-transparency.pdf))
+===== Imported (Needs Reorganization) =====
+== The American Medical Association ==
+The AMA is a professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students.
+Their publication is Journal of the American Medical Association [[JAMA]] first edition 1883.
+An 1845 resolution to the New York Medical Association by Dr. Nathan S. Davis, calling for a national medical convention, led to the establishment of the American Medical Association [[AMA]] in 1847. Scientific advancement, standards for medical education, launching a program of medical ethics, improved public health — these were the goals of the AMA.
+Since its founding in 1847 the AMA has played a crucial role in the development of medicine in the United States. Here’s a look at some key historical dates:
+*1873* AMA Judicial Council founded to deal with medical ethical and constitutional controversies.
+*1883* Journal of the [[American Medical Association]] is first published; Nathan Davis is first editor.
+*1906* AMA publishes first American Medical Directory listing over 128,000 licensed physicians in the U.S. and Canada.
+*1910* The [[Flexner Report]], Medical Education in the United States and Canada, funded by the [[Carnegie Foundation]] and supported by the AMA, is published and facilitates new standards for medical schools
+*1927* AMA Council on Medical Education and Hospitals publishes -->>first list of hospitals approved for residency training<<--
+*1943*  AMA opens an office in Washington, D.C
+*1950* AMA Education and Research Foundation established to help medical schools meet expenses and to help medical students.
+*1966* AMA publishes first edition of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), a system of standardized terms for medical procedures used to facilitate documentation.
+*1967* The United States Adopted Names (USAN) Council is established to determine nonproprietary designations for chemical compounds.
+*1990* AMA Fellowship Residency Electronic Interactive Data Access System (FREIDA) describing residency programs in the United States is available in electronic form.
+*2008* Ronald M. Davis, MD, then the AMA's immediate past president, apologizes for more than a century of AMA policies that excluded African-Americans from the AMA and that also barred them from some state and local medical societies. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20181207111306/https://www.ama-assn.org/about/ama-history/ama-history))
+==== AMA Role in Pharmaceutical Industry ====
+*1849* AMA establishes a board to analyze quack remedies and nostrums and to enlighten the public in regard to the nature and danger of such remedies. The Department of Investigation (1913-1975) gathered and disseminated health fraud and quackery information for the public for over 60 years
+== *1905* AMA establishes a council to set standards for drug manufacturing and advertising ==
+*1923* AMA promotes periodic examination of healthy persons
+*1961* AMA recommends a [[nationwide vaccination]] using the Sabin oral vaccine against polio.
+*1972* AMA launches war on smoking, urging the government to reduce and control the use of tobacco products and supporting legislation prohibiting the disbursement of [[tobacco]] samples.
+*1973* AMA urges physicians to cooperate in a national program to combat hypertension.
+*1986* AMA passes resolution opposing acts of discrimination against [[AIDS]] patients and any legislation that would lead to such categorical discrimination or that would affect patient-physician confidentiality.
+*1996* AMA launches a crusade against health plan "gag clauses," resulting in these restrictive provisions being dropped by 5 leading managed care providers and laws prohibiting gag clauses in 16 states.
+*1997* AMA launches the [[National Patient Safety Foundation]] to help ensure that all patients in all health care settings receive health care services safely.
+*2005* AMA spearheads effort with 129 other health care and patient groups, which results in the passage and signing of the [[Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act]]. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20181207111306/https://www.ama-assn.org/about/ama-history/ama-history))
+==== AMA Propaganda & Smear Operations ====
+=== AMA Front Group Attacks VAERS Researcher ===
+Current example of AMA propaganda and smear tactics are illustrated on the website of AMA shill Dr. [[:Stephen Barrett]] host of [[:Quackwatch]] constellation of front groups including his Skeptical RaptorBlog hosting vaccine mandate advocate [[:Dorit Rubenstein Reiss]] for attack on Dr. [[:Jessica Rose]] analysis of Adverse Events reports. ((https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=jessica_rose#a_new_online_attack))
+=== Reviews of P.J. Lisa's "The Assault on Medical Freedom" ===
+Acting as an undercover agent, author P.J. Lisa gained access to the secret files of the AMA's Chicago Department of investigation under the guise of collecting information to expose "mental health quackery."
+The first three days gave Lisa access to hundreds of photocopies of memos, minutes, and other documents that launched a 10-year search for answers that proved little about the existence of quackery in alternative medicine, but much about an organized propaganda machine that intended to discredit and destroy all alternatives to drugless medicine and all foreign drugs.  Lisa found fresh, hard documentation to prove that a "totalitarian medical-pharmaceutical police state" had been organized since 1847, the birth of the AMA, and a conspiracy slowly developed, funded by the pharmaceutical industry and the AMA, to ust the insurance industry, the US Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the IRS, the US Postal Service, and  and many other state and federal agencies as pawns in the game of establishing a single medical monopoly.
+The AMA was pictured as a greed-motivated trade union from its very beginning that had ethical conduct and quality of medical education as its official purpose, but in reality was more interested in systematically eliminating all competitors to is monetary and political interests.
+Although MD-oriented trauma care is acknowledged to be the best in the world, allopathic MD-oriented drug medicine was reported by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to he only 15 - 20% effective as a medical approach. Despite this, the AMA's board of directors stated mission was to publish articles that attacked effective alternative treatment as "quackery".
+This propaganda machine slowly expanded over the years.  By 1964, the AMA's Committee on Quackery extended its membership to become the Coordinating Conference on Health information.   CCHI membership included AMA officers, The American Cancer  Society,  The  American Pharmaceutical  Association, The
+Arthritis Foundation, The Council of Better Business Bureaus, The National Health Council, which invited the FDA, The Federal Trade Commission, US Postal Service, The Office of Consumer Affairs, US and State Attorney Generals' Offices, and the IRS to attend national meetings. CCHI officials allegedly asked the FDA to prosecute drugless "quackery" targets that had regional or national notoriety beginning to intrude on market share of the legal drug lords and the doctors prescribing drugs.  The Federal Trade Commission was asked to get injunctions against competitive advertisements, the US Postal Service to put  mail  watches  on  clinics, manufacturers, and individual doctors who used alternative therapies in order to discredit and destroy competition from  chiropractic,  acupuncture, homeopathy, naturopathy, vitamin therapy, Japanese cancer vaccines, alternative books on cancer treatments, all alternative cancer treatments and all alternative drugless arthritic treatments.
+Lisa's book, like Breggin's Toxic Psychiatry, Beasley's Betrayal of Health, Mendelsohn's Confessions of a Medical Heretic, Carter's Racketeering in Medicine, and a growing number of other similar books, is unique in the detail of its hard documentation from minutes of CCHI's meetings and evidence which shows federal agencies complying with CCHI's targets and goals.  Court injunctions have been
+successfully levied against everything from books to importing acupuncture needles as a result.
+Lisa's evidence suggested that by 1984, this medical conspiracy had targeted vitamins, minerals, enzymes, raw milk, and laetrile, as well as a plan to exclude chiropractic and other alternative health care from insurance coverage.
+Any product,  store,  doctor,  or manufacturer of any competitor to drug health care was the subject of media discrediting,  licensing   board harassment, seizure or raid.  The FDA and  Pharmaceutical  Advertising Council had entered into an agreement to form a joint anti-quackery campaign.  Key congressional leaders were invited to meetings and asked to join in the effort.  Initially, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Medicare, Aetna, the Health Association of America were fed a black list of doctors and treatments that were "questionable" and asked to exclude them from coverage.  By 1986-88, a computer data base created by this conspiracy helped to deny insurance claims by hundreds of insurers.  One myth we have all heard was created by this kind of unholy alliance: "vitamins only produce expensive urine." At the same time officials of the FDA cooperated by attacking food supplements that were proving to be competitors to drug treatment.  Merck, Sharpe, Dohme, Roche, Lederle, and Burroughs-Wellcome diversified into giant producers of vitamins with massive TV campaigns to promote their sales.  These companies were never raided by FDA inspectors; only the drugless manufactures were.  Vitamin E alone has now become a $338 million a year market.
+Few of the FDA raid-seizure operations were ever motivated by interests protecting the safety of the consumer.  Instead, the FDA's own health Fraud Consumer Report of 1988 targeted cancer, arthritis, and other food supplement treatments that were known to be "very effective to somewhat effective."  Lisa's point: safety or effectiveness was not the real issue - identification of serious competition to drugs was the issue. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20120313032840/http://www.sonic.net/mde/masscfids/main/PJLisa.html))
+=== Lisa Excerpt ====
+"(The AMA is) just another mean trust," [[:Harry S. Truman]], 33rd President of the United States.
+"In the 1960's, the AMA started a secret group called the [[:Department of Investigations]]. Their sole purpose was to identify and destroy any form of alternative or challenging medical health care. As a result, upwards of seventy people worked to deny chiropractic, podiatry, and many other areas of medical practice any access to the American health care delivery system, which would have helped these people.
+"I wrote an article in 1972 based upon files that were taken out of the AMA headquarters that led five chiropractors to sue the AMA, and the AMA ended up being found guilty of conspiracy to violate the [[:Sherman Anti-Trust Act]] and Restraint of Trade, along with ten other major medical organizations in the country. One organization settled before it went to trial. A million documents were uncovered. In that, you see that organized medicine had no interest in having the average American be responsible for their health. Didn't want prevention. And EVERYTHING that was anything other than their view was destroyed," Dr Gary Null, author of Fascism in Medicine
+"This medical strangle hold did not just happen with the passing of time; it was a planned conspiracy against the American people, with an "eye" to the financial gains of the doctors. A sample of this strategy may be seen in the following speech of Dr. [[:W. A. Evans]], one of the top medical "bosses," and Health Commissioner for the city of Chicago, who gave these instructions to the doctors in their annual convention of the American Medical Association in 1911: "The thing for the medical profession to do, is to get right into, and man every important health movement; man health departments, tuberculosis societies, housing societies, child care and infant societies, etc. The future of the profession depends on it. . . The profession cannot afford to have these places occupied by other than medical men." This pronouncement was published in the journal of the A. M. A., September 16, 1911. Just how whole-heartedly this decree was carried out is clearly shown by how completely all the non-medical schools of healing such as chiropractic, naturopathic, religious science, hygienics, etc., have been excluded from such tax supported institutions as health boards, public hospitals, army camps, state prisons, workman’s compensation bureaus, asylums, etc," Eleanor McBean
+"Consider the AMA. Almost half of its income every year is derived not from membership dues, but from the average doctor who knows nothing about what the AMA is doing and is unable to have any voice in it. **Half of the income comes from cartel drug firms, in the form of advertising in the "Journal of the American Medical Association". Ten million dollars a year is funneled into the AMA from drug firms.** Plus, ten million dollars of AMA money is invested in stock ownership in these big drug companies. That is what you might call a conflict of interest.
+=== The Assault on Medical Freedom ===
+"Research shows that during the first one hundred years of the AMA's existence it formed councils and committees which sat in judgement of its economic competitors. These committees would "investigate" the various alternative health-care systems and would then report on their findings and make determinations and recommendations that the public should stay away from such "quackery." The CCHI [[:Coordinating Conference on Health Information]] and the AMA's [[:Committee on Quackery]] continued to serve this function from 1963 to 1975. However, when the writing was on the wall, Doyl Taylor saw that his propaganda department was "going down for the count." He apparently took steps to see that his work continued even if he weren't around to supervise the AMA's campaigns against the "quacks."
+In his description of what the CCHI should be, he took steps to maintain its secrecy by dictating that no minutes of their meetings should be taken. This made finding the new CCHI (or "shadow" CCHI) a lot more difficult. However, even those most careful to cover their tracks often leave clues for determined investigators to find. In the case of the CCHI, Taylor left one big clue. In the OBJECTIVES and GOALS of the CCHI, he stated;
+Protection of the public by gathering and disseminating by all means possible any and all information involving health quackery to each member [of the conference], particularly those agencies involved in law enforcement. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20081216095622/http://encognitive.com/node/1209))