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“The American Medical Association not only represents the roughly 800,000 practicing physicians in the United States, but also sets the official standards for treatment for virtually every patient malady, and is instrumental in directing and controlling the supply of doctors entering medical school.  By virtue of an affiliated licensing body called the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the AMA determines which medical schools receive its official accreditation, and for over a hundred years it has been very stingy with its approval process.  Furthermore, the AMA together with its close affiliate, the American Association of Medical Colleges,  conducts regular studies to assess the necessary supply of medical doctors and advises existing medical schools as well as state and federal regulators as to optimal admission levels for new students—and these too have been artificially and unnecessarily constricted[22].”
― Reid Jenner, Diagnose Yourself: How to Find a Permanent Cure For What Ails You

“These three powerful institutional bodies—Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), the big pharmaceutical companies, and the various professional organizations representing doctors (led by the AMA)—working consciously and unconsciously together have created a formidable system which dictates and controls both the method and means for providing the bulk of health care services in the United States.  But none of this would be possible without the essential involvement of one other key institution that not only provides necessary support for these three legs of the U.S. health care system, but also effectively provides a fourth leg that makes it virtually untopable: the federal (and to a lesser degree, states’) government.”
― Reid Jenner, Diagnose Yourself: How to Find a Permanent Cure For What Ails You

“9.73 minutes.    That’s how long the typical physician spends examining you before passing judgment with a prognosis and sending you on your way with a treatment program[41].  Which is almost always a prescription to treat the presenting symptoms—not the underlying cause.”
― Reid Jenner, Diagnose Yourself: How to Find a Permanent Cure For What Ails You

“Back then, the American health care landscape looked very different: what is now referred to as “alternative” medicine was standard practice—up until the late eighteen century most health care treatment was predicated on homeopathic, osteopathic, and other non-allopathic therapies.  The AMA considers its form of medicine practiced by traditional medical doctors (their members) to be ‘allopathic’, which relies primarily on treatments—mostly synthetic—to produce effects different from the diseases being treated, whereas homeopathic, naturopathic, and osteopathic treatments rely more on natural remedies that produce effects similar to the diseases being treated and rely much more upon the body’s inherent natural healing qualities.”
― Reid Jenner, Diagnose Yourself: How to Find a Permanent Cure For What Ails You