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A new poll finds that despite the American Medical Association’s support for President Obama’s healthcare plan, most specialty doctors strongly oppose the plan.

The American Society of Medical Doctors has released a poll of physicians that finds 86 percent of specialty doctors believe that the American Medical Association has become too political and has lost touch with the doctors it represents.
 
The American Medical Association, or AMA, which gave Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy its highest award for public service earlier this year, has endorsed President Obama’s government-run healthcare plan. Seventy percent of the specialty doctors surveyed in the poll said they oppose current congressional and White House proposals for healthcare reform.
 
Jean Card, a spokeswoman for the American Society of Medical Doctors, says the polling shows that many doctors fear President Obama’s healthcare plan threatens their ability to honor the Hippocratic Oath.
 
“If you can’t live up to your oath, if you feel like this bureaucracy and this clumsy government system is in between you and your patient, well then a doctor thinks ‘No, I have to go with my oath, and if I have to say no to government to follow my oath, then I will,’” she says.
 
The poll released by the American Society of Medical Doctors also found that 66 percent of specialty physicians believe that a government-run health insurance plan would restrict doctors’ ability to give the best advice and offer the best possible care to their patients.

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