An E-Mail Exchange with the Florida Society of Plastic Surgeons

This e-mail exchange with the Florida Society of Plastic Surgeons took place in May 2022. Nothing has changed. If anything, things are worse. Below is the original e-mail and responses that followed.

Dear FSPS Member,

I know many may have strong feelings about the AMA but when politicians consider legislation impacting medicine, they look to what they consider a trusted source, the AMA.

The Aesthetic Society is approximately 52 members shy of regaining our seat at the AMA House of Delegates. If we are not represented, we cannot advocate for our patients, our specialty and the safe practice of medicine.

To regain our seat, at least 20% of Aesthetic Society members must also be members of the AMA . Membership also counts for our other societies as well.

The American Board of Cosmetic Surgery has delegates and is certainly voicing their opinions to the AMA.

Please join the AMA today so we may keep a seat and a voice at the table and can provide important input regarding decisions that impact us and our patients. The deadline is May 31st so the sooner the better!

Best Regards,

David Halpern, MD

FSPS President

Below is my reply:

This presents me with a dilemma. I do not believe the AMA any longer represents the interests of physicians if, indeed, it ever did. I dropped my membership in the wake of the failure of the AMA to voice the concerns of physicians in the passage of the ACA in a quid pro quo to eliminating the SGR. Now, the AMA has gone fully woke, adopting critical race theory and race essentialism, as well as other progressive, unscientific positions vis a vis gender dysphoria. I simply cannot, and will not, join this organization, the demise of which cannot come soon enough for me. R. T. Bosshardt, MD, FACS

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Dr. Bosshardt is a plastic surgeon with over three decades of practice. He is an avid reader and writer who contributed a weekly column on medical matters to the Orlando Sentinel for over tweny five years. His interests are wide ranging but have a common thread. That thread is an insatiable curiosity about people and the world around us. This includes the natural world, society and culture, and human potential, both good and bad. He is fascinated by our mind, body, and spiritual connection and what we are capable if we put our energy, mind, and will to any task. He is a lifelong runner who has completed multiple marathons and triathlons, culminating in completion of a full Ironman triathlon at age 61 and he is seguing into ultradistance running. His proudest accomplishment, however, is his family. He is married to the love of his life for 41 years and has three grown children, their spouses, and six grandchildren that he adores. His worldview is Christian and the Christian message of sin and redemption informs everything he is and does. If this blog informs and challenges readers, it will have been worth starting.

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