The AMA Doesn’t Represent Doctors Like Me

The American Medical Association says it puts science above politics, but the record, as Allysia Finley has laid out, speaks for itself (Letters, Aug. 27). One of the biggest explanations for the association’s mission creep is that it represents a narrow and radicalized slice of the medical profession, falsely giving the impression that it speaks for all doctors.

Doctors have been leaving the AMA in droves for decades. Today it represents less than 20% of U.S. physicians. As of 2023, about half of its members were medical students or residents, who have gone to medical schools that are captured by such political fads as DEI.

Read the full letter at The Wall Street Journal.