The American Medical Association represents the welfare of doctors. Doctors benefit when they care for sick patients. So the more sick patients, the more a doctor can earn. It follows that parodoxically, in the peverse financial incentive of the US health care system, it's not in the fiduciary interest of the AMA to promote 'curing' any patient, even as the ethics of medical care promote this outcome.
So it comes as a surprise that the AMA has endorsed the following (h/t WSJ health blog):
In addition to resolutions backing the individual mandate to purchase health insurance and to adopt a bill of rights for medical residents, delegates to the AMA’s annual meeting have approved a resolution recognizing “competitive speed eating as an unhealthy eating practice with potential adverse consequences.”
Wouldn't it be more responsible for the AMA (as a lobbying organization for doctors) to sponsor the Nathan's Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest? It can have ER docs sitting by to pump stomachs. And GI doctors doing EGDs to pull out some stuck hot dogs? Or general surgeons taking those with stomach ruptures to the OR?
Happy 4th of July, AMA.
I'd be interested in hearing. The TOS seems rather clear that it is not unless expressly approved by Amazon. I guess if the library got it in writing then they would be ok.
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