Category: Members
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Alabama’s Physicians Contribute Billions to State Financial Health
MONTGOMERY – Alabama’s more than 8,700 patient care physicians fulfill a vital role in the state’s economy by supporting 101,770 jobs and generating $16.7 billion in economic activity, according to a new report released by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama and the American Medical Association. “Urban or rural, large group or solo…
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Alabama Physician Health Program Announces Reorganization
The Alabama Physician Health Program, the Medical Association’s confidential resource for physicians and other medical professionals with potentially impairing conditions or illnesses, recently announced a reorganization and new staff to better protect the health, safety and welfare of those it serves. The APHP provides confidential consultation and support to physicians, physician’s assistants, residents and medical…
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Organized Medicine: Why Physician Membership is More Important Now than Ever Before.
“There’s strength in numbers” is a saying we all know well. Whereas one person can say something, it becomes a much more powerful display when more people join together in support or protest. In the past, it was not unusual for physicians to be members of their county medical society, specialty society, state medical association,…
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Annual Session Poster Symposium Winner Presents in Hawaii…and Wins!
Dr. Bradley Wills, who originally received first place at the Medical Association’s Second Annual Poster Symposium in April for his poster entitled Outcomes with Overlapping Surgery at a Large Academic Medical Center, presented his research poster at the 2017 AMA Interim Meeting in Honolulu in November and won the Resident-Fellow Section Division for Clinical Medicine.…
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Centreville Physician Receives National Recognition
Centreville physician John Waits was the only Alabama physician to be recognized by the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health’s 2017 Community Stars Program. Dr. Waits was one of 31 honorees during the 2017 National Rural Health Day working tirelessly to improve, protect and advance health and wellness in our rural communities. Dr.…
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Match Day 2017 Successful for Alabama’s Medical Students
MOBILE — The excitement was thick in the ballroom of the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center on in March for Match Day. What is perhaps the most important day for each graduating medical school student can also be the most stressful. This day serves as a focus of celebration for medical schools and students…
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Haleyville Physician Installed as President for 2017-2018
MONTGOMERY – Boyde Jerome “Jerry” Harrison, a family practitioner from Haleyville, was formally installed as president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama during the 2017 Inauguration, Awards Presentation and 50-Year Physician Recognition Dinner last month. “From the time I was a boy, my mother wanted me to get an education, so she…
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Medical Association Celebrates Second Annual Doctors’ Day in Alabama
MONTGOMERY – On March 29, Gov. Robert Bentley signed a proclamation declaring March 30, 2017, the Second Annual Doctors’ Day in Alabama formally recognizing Alabama’s nearly 17,000 licensed physicians serving millions of residents through private practice, in hospitals, in research, and in other health care facilities. Doctors’ Day in Alabama, a project sponsored by the…
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Celebrating Black History Month: Meet Alabama’s First African-American Physician
Dr. Cornelius Nathanial Dorsett was born a slave sometime between 1852 and 1859 in Davidson County, NC. He was separated from his mother, when she was sold, when he was just 2 months old. He was also the first African-American to pass the Alabama State Medical Examination. Once slavery ended, Dr. Dorsett attended Hampton Institute…
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