Condemnation without action
“CHICAGO — The nation’s largest medical society says it has zero tolerance for doctors who sexually abuse patients. But in the American Medical Association’s calculus, zero doesn’t always equal zero.
“The association does not favor the automatic revocation of the medical license of every doctor who commits sexual abuse of a patient. It does not expel every offender from its membership rolls. It has never independently researched the prevalence of sexual abuse in clinical settings. Twenty-six years ago it declared sexual misconduct a breach of medical ethics, but since then it has remained all but mute on the issue.
“It has, however, fought to keep confidential a federal database of physicians disciplined for sexual misconduct and other transgressions. When a proposal to open the database emerged in Congress, a former House staff member said, the AMA “crushed it like a bug.” . . .
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