Industry Note: Gun Violence, Opioid Epidemic are the Hot Topics at AMA Annual Meeting
The nation’s top physicians’ group, the American Medical Association (AMA), encouraged action on the part of government to curb the impact of both gun violence and drug abuse in its 2018 Annual Meeting in Chicago.
“In emergency rooms across the country, the carnage of gun violence has become a too routine experience,” said AMA Immediate Past President David O. Barbe, MD, MHA at the meeting. “Every day, physicians are treating suicide victims, victims of domestic partner violence, and men and women simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. It doesn’t have to...
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