I have been a member of the Maine Medical Association for some 60 years, and my feelings have changed recently from proud to ashamed.
For many years, doctors were thought of as leaders of society. No more.
Doctors are now employees, not independent practitioners, and are driven by technology, rather than personal contact with a human, the patient.
The MMA has consistently ignored my suggestions to take back leadership by educating our public regarding what we all might do to adjust to, and mitigate, the changes in our climate that we increasingly see all around us.
Now, in what seems to be the ultimate insult, the final blow to any of my residual pride: Gov. Paul LePage is to address the organization’s annual meeting Sept. 12.
In my mind, this is totally abhorrent and a complete failure of any mission or sense of leadership that the MMA might have aspired to.
Richard K. Jennings, M.D.
Brunswick
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