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AMA sold the tobacco property shortly after that story broke.)
• Eventually I did join the AMA and related SD State Medical Association (SDSMA,) and aside from bringing doctors together in a joyful social way, I have noted through the years that these organizations have consistently empowered physicians to help our patients. Case in point: the physicians of the AMA, the SDSMA, with others, truly succeeded in reducing tobacco use here and throughout the US.
• The AMA started in 1847 when Dr. Nathan Davis, a young New York doctor introduced a resolution at the New York Medical Society to establish a national medical association, in order to set up standards for medical education, determine a code of ethics, and find ways to inform the public about the dangers in non-scientific
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