Kelly HayesJanuary 19, 2021
6min2017
The bill would make it a third degree felony for those who continue to practice conversion therapy on minors.
Tag: American Medical Association
Kelly HayesJanuary 19, 2021
Wire ServicesNovember 19, 2020
4min302
Associations urge Americans to celebrate responsibly.
Associated PressJuly 5, 2020
16min292
The stress of living with racism has very real, physical effects.
Associated PressOctober 18, 2019
9min590
Some doctors say this increased presence could undermine public health.
Peter SchorschMay 1, 2017
5min327
After suffering a significant setback last week in the Eyeball Wars, optometrists may be mounting a last-ditch effort to get their bill rolling in the House. When will this bad bill just die? It has long past time to put an end to the Eyeball Wars in 2017, perhaps for good. Last week, HB 1037 […]
Phil AmmannApril 18, 2017
Eyeball Wars rage as dozens of medical groups oppose optometrists, claiming ‘serious threat’ to care
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A growing number of medical professionals have joined forces in a wave of disapproval of optometrists in Florida’s “Eyeball Wars,” which is now making way through Tallahassee. HB 1037, which seeks to allow optometrists to perform surgery and prescribe opiates, among other things, now sits on the agenda of the House Health & Human Services […]
Phil AmmannMarch 24, 2017
4min298
The nation’s largest association of physicians is the latest group to come out against a bill at the center of Florida’s so-called “Eyeball Wars” between ophthalmologists and optometrists. On Thursday, American Medical Association President and CEO James Madara sent a letter to House Health & Human Services Committee chair Travis Cummings, in which he called […]
Mitch PerryJune 28, 2016
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As dozens of injured people were being sent to Orlando hospitals in the immediate aftermath of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting, thousands in Central Florida and throughout the state immediately went to give blood to those fighting for their lives. However, some survivors of the shooting were prohibited from donating blood to their friends who were shot because […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 31, 2016
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A coalition of consumer and physicians’ groups isn’t backing away from its request for an investigation into insurance mergers. The Florida Campaign for Consumer Choice on Friday launched a statewide petition drive to encourage Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the mergers of Aetna and Humana, and Anthem and Cigna. The petition effort is the […]
Guest AuthorAugust 1, 20143min213
Physicians interrogating and lecturing parents and children about guns is not about gun safety. It is a political agenda to ban guns. Despite the smokescreen deployed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Medical Association, one need only remember the policy statements and instructions posted on the AAP’s website years before Florida’s […]