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Thank you for this. I saw so many people celebrating this as "the AMA is getting rid of BMI!!" and for the life of me, I could not understand why. This isn't getting rid of BMI. This is instructions on how to keep justifying its use. Thank you for laying things out so clearly.
I had celebrated the news about the AMA renouncing the BMI (finally) but felt something was off and didn’t quite understand what. Thanks for pointing out the problems with this supposed good news. Le sigh.
Oh good, they took negative 50 steps towards undoing all the harm they’ve done by going against their own committee’s recommendation done a decade ago.
The AMA should just rename itself as an arm of the pharma lobby and give up pretending to care about patients.
Thank you for this. I saw so many people celebrating this as "the AMA is getting rid of BMI!!" and for the life of me, I could not understand why. This isn't getting rid of BMI. This is instructions on how to keep justifying its use. Thank you for laying things out so clearly.
I had celebrated the news about the AMA renouncing the BMI (finally) but felt something was off and didn’t quite understand what. Thanks for pointing out the problems with this supposed good news. Le sigh.
Oh good, they took negative 50 steps towards undoing all the harm they’ve done by going against their own committee’s recommendation done a decade ago.
The AMA should just rename itself as an arm of the pharma lobby and give up pretending to care about patients.