I Broke My World Record With the Newest JAMA!
It only took 8.4 seconds from opening my mailbox to throwing out the newest, non-subscribed edition of JAMA. A magazine that has followed me since medical school. It’s a good use of their members’ dues, which I am not.
I bailed on the AMA when they backed the ACA (same for the AAFP and AARP, for that matter). Never looked back!
Yup, I dropped AMA a couple of years after starting practice. Been retired 2.5 years now. Early on learned it was a complete waste of money.
Being retired, I had to become a Senior Member of AMA to receive it—eighty bucks a year, I think. And I generally read only ‘A Piece of My Mind’ and the poem near the back of the magazine. I would prefer to get the American Journal of Medicine (the “green journal”) but it costs hundreds. In the heyday of medical journals, free to us and paid for by drugs that cost the patients pennies a dose, there was nothing better than MD Magazine, edited by Felix Marti-Ibanez, the old Medical Economics, as big as phone books, and Emergency Medicine, among others. Those were the days. JAMA was always junk except for some of the interesting artwork that used to be on the cover. We called The New England Journal of Medicine the “brown journal” because we never had time to take the wrapper off. I’ve recycled 99% of my old medical journals. Keeping my collection of Playboy and MAD Magazine, though, not to mention Placebo Journal!!
You beat me! My best is 15 seconds and I average in the 20s. It’s just a schill for pharma as they are nothing but whores for them. I am not will not could not ever be a member of the ama.