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"It’s not just the AMA that’s picking and choosing when to align itself with the administration. The American Heart Association put out a statement in support of Kennedy’s “eat real foods” edict. The president of the Association of American Medical Colleges attended an HHS event on increasing nutrition education in medical schools.

The reality is that medical organizations are divided on how to interface with the new HHS leadership."

https://www.notus.org/health-science/rfk-maha-medical-establishment-divided-on

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To Sue or to Woo? The Medical Establishment Is Divided on MAHA

Major medical societies are trying to figure out how to respond to Trump’s health agenda promoting healthy living alongside vaccine misinformation.

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MessengerFlats 4d ago

@bich I have been thinking that this examples, reflects a fundamental, at least for medicine, drive to let data establish positions, rather than a power framework for the politics side of policy.

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Bich Nguyen 3d ago

@MessengerFlats

It is true. We should let data inform policy-making. Unfortunately, politics in the U.S. doesn't work that way!

Me running a course that invites public health department leaders to come talk to students about their work is me "pushing an progressive agenda" onto their throats. Rudolf Virchow’ said, “Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine at a larger scale.” I'm trying to help learners understand this.

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MessengerFlats

@bich Concurred, decisions that would be made wholly on the science, is often a victim of satisficing, a term from public administration...which has sadly been lost on many hardline politicians.