This is a total hoot. Medgadget goes to the American Medical Association’s website and sees nothing in regards to Doctors Day 2006: no dedicated page, no press release, nothing. Our very own Dr.O, who is due for AMA membership renewal, calls AMA’s media relations offices in Chicago and in Washington, D.C. The reply he gets from Brenda Craine, Director of Media Relations, is that AMA has no statement to the fact that there is a Doctors Day holiday and there is no evidence of any celebrations by the AMA. And that’s that.
The AMA website…
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