Podcast 7: Interview with Dr. Nelson Adams, President, National Medical Association

Nelson Adams, president of the National Medical Association, joins us to discuss the American Medical Association’s apology to black physicians for its past efforts to exclude them from membership.

Journal Watch links

• AMA Apologizes for Past Discrimination Against African-Americans
• FDA Calls for Boxed Warning on Fluoroquinolones
• Treating Hypertension Only Marginally Reduces Dementia Risk in the Very Elderly
• HER2 Gene Test for Patients with Breast Cancer Approved

American Medical Association apology

• http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/711/1

Fluoroquinolones

• http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/709/1

Hypertension in the elderly

• http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/708/1

Herceptin

• http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/709/3

“The Americans”

• http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Frank-Americans-Jack-Kerouac/dp/386521584X

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