Liveblogging from Washington, DC...

by: los anjalis

Sat Oct 06, 2007 at 12:28:18 PM PDT

...where I'm surrounded by 30 amazing progressive and passionate doctors, at the National Physicians Alliance board and committees meeting!

We're having some serious discussions and strategizing together on health care issues, advocating for our patients and the public's health, and building a more robust organization in the process.

The NPA does not accept ANY money from pharmaceutical companies, AND advocates strongly against physicians and physicians' organizations having an unhealthy relationship with the pharmaceutical industry.

In addition, we're discussing our access to health initiatives, building our global health workforce initiative, responding to the SCHIP insurance cuts crisis, and developing our race/medicine and institutional racism (undoing racism) analyses.

It's nothing less than a party. Of ideas. Of energy. Of a positive future of integrity in medicine. And the coffee is being drunk like the wine it is at meetings like this.

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