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Previous Volume 331:1463-1464 November 24, 1994 Number 21

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By Howard Wolinsky and Tom Brune. 267 pp. New York, G.P. Putnam, 1994. $24.95. ISBN 0-87477-754-2.

Since the 1920s a tradition has grown up of cataloguing the misdeeds of the American Medical Association (AMA) for nonprofessional audiences. In one of the earliest works in this category, written in 1929 and entitled The Medical Trust Unmasked (New York: L.S. Siegfried), John L. Spivak depicted the AMA as a vast political machine designed to control all health-related legislation in the United States. Some 65 years later, the same complaint is heard in The Serpent on the Staff: The Unhealthy Politics of the American Medical Association, by Howard Wolinsky and Tom Brune. The authors, both reporters for the Chicago . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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