A meeting … between the head of the American Medical Association and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has prompted infighting within the nation’s leading lobbying group for doctors.
Following the Jan. 7 meeting, a contingent of member doctors wrote to the AMA’s board chair because they view Kennedy as a threat to public health whom the group should shun ….
The dissenting AMA members said the group, which speaks for more than 250,000 doctors and commands one of the country’s biggest lobbying war chests, should not have used its clout to back Kennedy’s new dietary guidelines. …
AMA leaders, who have sought a seat at the table in health care policymaking for the past year, have found themselves in a Catch-22: Can the group work with Kennedy on issues of mutual interest while also standing up to him when it disagrees, as with Kennedy’s moves to cast doubt on the importance of vaccines?
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When Saroj Misra, a physician, commented that he hoped Mukkamala pressed Kennedy on policies that are “destroying the health of America,” Mukkamala replied: “All collaboration begins with ‘Hello…nice to meet you.’”
