DJP Update 7-2-2014 Have a wonderful 4th of July! – Twitter as a source of news – AMA Board and AMA position on SCOTUS Hobby Lobby case
1- Happy 4th of July! Hope you have a wonderful and safe celebration and reflect on the courage of those who gave us this land of liberty.
2- TWITTER: Once again, I repeat myself about the advantage of Twitter as a news source. You don’t have to tweet. Just download the app. I use Twitter app plus Echofon. Both do the same basics but each has advantages over the other. You can follow news organizations and get breaking news long before you see it on TV or Websites.
Example, follow Twitter accounts of news from TV stations, news organizations such AP, Reuters, NYTimes, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Wall Street Journal and your favorite investigative reporters plus medical sources. By the way I own no stock in Twitter and I am not an employee of Twitter. I find the book (previously described via DJP Update) that explains Twitter best is “The Twitter Book” by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein. Easy to read and understand and has all of the essentials.
Here is one example below of news about AMA that is not on AMA Website yet ( http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/news/newsroom-index-2014.page?&linkid=subnav-1 ) as of 1:28 PM Central.
AMA position on decision by Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) re Hobby Lobby case is noted in Modern Healthcare tweet below. As you may recall, the Court, as summarized by Modern Healthcare, said closely held private companies should not have to provide insurance coverage for four types of contraceptives to which company owners have religious objections. As other news sources have pointed out, Hobby Lobby has no objection to covering the insurance costs of 16 of the 20 ACA/HHS forms of contraceptives. http://www.minnpost.com/dc-dispatches/2014/07/post-hobby-lobby-how-will-affected-women-get-contraception-coverage
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140701/NEWS/307019939/doctors-nurses-urge-action-following-hobby-lobby-decision
Use this link if link in tweet below doesn’t work. When copying tweets, the link sometimes changes!
You also may have to sign in.
This info was noted in a tweet by Modern Healthcare:
modrnhealthcr
#Hobbylobby decision “intrudes on the patient-physician relationship,” says @robertwahmd: http://t.co/S4rx5aNC9X @AmerMedicalAssn
7/2/14, 6:45 AM
——————
Obviously, my views on PPACA and HHS regulations are well known and I have stated repeatedly that specific law and the regulations related to it are the greatest intrusions on the patient-physician relationship.
I have shared those views with you in past including this Op-Ed: http://www.donaldpalmisano.com/html/PEJLSMS2010.pdf
Rather than read only the comments of others about the decision, be sure to read the entire decision yourself. It can be found at the U.S. Supreme Court site:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf
Other Supreme Court decisions can be found at: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinions.aspx?Term=13
3- AMA Board 2014-2015 as of June 2014 elections by HoD and Board itself for intra-board positions
The link below gives all board members and their titles.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/news/news/2014/2014-06-12-ama-announces-2014-board-trustees.page
If you wish to write anyone on board, the email is firstname.lastname@ama-assn.org
Thus first name followed by period and then last name followed by @ama-assn.org
Example AMA President:
Robert.Wah@ama-assn.org
Communication with elected board members is critical to understand positions board takes and to share how the practice of medicine is going in your community. Failure to communicate increases risk of membership loss. The best way to enhance communication, in my opinion, is to have the equivalent of C-Span viewing of AMA board meetings available only to AMA members. That way one can see the debate on controversial issues and see how the board members vote. This allows one to see if the rhetoric of the candidate matches the actions of the same person if elected to Board. But then I repeat myself.
Have a great 4th of July and give thanks to the veterans and those still in our military. Those in uniform protect our liberty with their lives at risk.
Stay well,
Donald
P.S. If the link did not work re Melinda and Bill Gates Stanford 2014 Commencement Speech mentioned in last DJP Update, here is another link with the speech on YouTube:
Go to one hour and one minute in YouTube posting to get to the speech as noted below.
Intro and speech begin at 1:01:00. ( just slide your pointer slowly to the right once it begins to play; if you slide it over too fast, the beginning audio background continues to play while they are speaking).
Also, Robin and I just returned from trip with granddaughter Alexis. Great fun. Activities included helicopter landing in Grand Canyon. See @DJPNEW tweets for more details and photos.
Donald J. Palmisano, MD, JD, FACS
Intrepid Resources® / The Medical Risk Manager Company
5000 West Esplanade Ave., #432
Metairie, LA 70006
USA
504-455-5895 office
504-455-9392 fax
DJP@donaldpalmisano.com
www.donaldpalmisano.com
www.onleadership.us
(Author of ON LEADERSHIP (2008, 2011 2nd edition) and THE LITTLE RED BOOK OF LEADERSHIP LESSONS (2012 & in bookstores and AMAZON now!)
DJP Updates: www.DJPupdate.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/DJPNEWS
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/IntrepidResources/videos Check out the videos.
This DJP Update goes to over 2300 leaders in Medicine representing all of the State Medical Associations and over 100 Specialty Societies plus some other friends.
You can share it with your members and it has the potential to reach 800,000 physicians.
To join the list, send me an email stating “Join DJP Update”
To get off the list, state ” Remove DJP Update” in subject line.