Keckley Report November 18, 2024
Last week, the American Medical Association (AMA) held its 2024 Interim House of Delegates (HOD) meeting in Lake Beuna Vista, Florida. The Bi-Annual confab drew 700 delegates representing 200 medical societies and physician professional organizations who considered 712 resolutions in the four-day agenda.
Per the AMA: “The House of Delegates (HOD) is the legislative and policy-making body of the American Medical Association. State medical associations and national medical specialty societies are represented in the HOD along with AMA sections, national societies such as AMWA, AOA and the NMA, professional interest medical associations, and the federal services, including the Public Health Service.”
Many consider the HOD deliberations the Association’s most important activity.
As its meeting began last Saturday, delegates heard AMA...