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Much was made yesterday morning about the cost of President Obama's quick trip back to Chicago for his speech before the American Medical Association's annual meeting, pitching his proposed health care reform plan. But the speech itself was received warmly for the most part. Calling the current cost of health care a "ticking time-bomb" and while not supporting caps on malpractice lawsuits, Obama did call for improvements to the system that would:

The Chicago-based American Medical Association has issued an official apology for "its past history of racial inequality toward African-American physicians." It's the latest apology by the AMA in a move to make amends for their troubling discriminatory past. Former policies prevented many black doctors from working in hospitals unless they were member of local chapters, many of which had their own discriminatory policies. Less than 3 percent of the nation's doctors and med students are black, and as of 2006, less than 2 percent of AMA members are black. In the release on its website, AMA Immediate-Past President Ronald M. Davis, M.D says:

The AMA is proud to support research about the history of the racial divide in organized medicine because by confronting the past we can embrace the future. The AMA is committed to improving its relationship with minority physicians and to increasing the ranks of minority physicians so that the workforce accurately represents the diversity of America’s patients.