Doctors are too busy to fight these issues and we are innately not programed to turn against our patients. That is where a strong medical association should come in. Unfortunately, the AMA has, IMO, done very little to advance our profession. It might be easier to withdraw from these non-representative societies than trying to unionize doctors. Left unfunded, the AMA would surely HAVE to start listening to physicians.

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "