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“It is true that what the AMA did historically was awful. There were AMA local chapters that actually had rules against black members well into the late 1960s, and policies that made blacks not feel comfortable well into the 1980s.”

– Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, talking to the Associated Press about last week’s apology by the American Medical Association (AMA) for its decades-long discrimination against black doctors

Source: AP, July 10.