AMA Guide on AIDS

AIDS: A Guide for the Primary Physician

In this short and interesting book, a renowned philosopher with expertise in mental illness reviews the major findings of the biology, psychology, and politics of alcoholism. His message is that alcoholism is not a disease. Rather, he argues, heavy drinking is a "way of life." Political, social, and personal forces may sharply affect the extent to which destructive drinking takes place. The boo...

The Ama and Chiropractic

The State and Territory Competition Policy Reform Acts of 1995 applied the competitive conduct rules to Australian professions, including the medical profession, for the first time. The competitive conduct rules are basically the prohibitions on restrictive trading practices contained in Part IV of the Trade Practices Act. As the medical profession was effectively sheltered from the operation o...

"This ain't my daddy's AMA".

Principles Governing AMA Web Sites

THE INTERNET HAS PERMITTED physicians, other health care professionals, patients, and other consumers to quickly access medical information in unprecedented volume. Such access has the potential to speed the transformation of the patient-physician relationship from that of physician authority ministering advice and treatment (with sometimes questionable patient understanding and adherence to re...

Open Access Guide to Audiology and Hearing Aids for Otolaryngologists

An acoustic stimulus is presented to the external auditory canal; energy is transferred from the ear canal through the middle ear, some of which is reflected and some absorbed by the tympanic membrane and external ear structures. The premise behind the immittance instrumentation used to measure the acoustic reflex is the ability to accurately measure changes in reflected energy occurring from s...