Liberal MDs are furious after top doctors group backed Trump’s pick for health secretary [StatNews.com]

Samantha Sangenito 12/5/164:00 AM

When Donald Trump this week tapped a surgeon-turned-congressman to run the Department of Health and Human Services, the nation’s largest physicians group swiftly endorsed the choice.

The blowback started almost at once.

Liberal doctors peppered the American Medical Association with furious tweets decrying the group’s endorsement of Representative Tom Price as a betrayal of patients and physicians. And by Wednesdaynight, 500 doctors had signed an online open letter titled “The AMA Does Not Speak For Us” started by the Clinician Action Network, a left-leaning advocacy group.

[For more of this story, written by Rebecca Robbins, go to https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/01/trump-ama-price/]

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