It has long been suspected that the American Medical Association has worked covertly to discredit and destroy other medical practices which they considered were in competition with medical doctors.

These suspicions were brought to light and proved true as U.S. District Judge Susan Getzendanner, ruling in favor of four chiropractor plaintiffs in their 11-year-long antitrust suit against the American Medical Association, cited the AMA’s “systematic, long-term wrongdoing and the long-term intent to destroy a licensed profession.” She said that the AMA’s actions were manifested especially by physicians, through a long-term boycott designed “to contain and eliminate the chiropractic profession.”

It was determined in the antitrust suit that the AMA had been running a long-term conspiracy to stop physicians from referring patients to chiropractors, accepting referrals from them, or even lecturing to them. Chiropractors, it was determined, were not being allowed to compete freely in the health care marketplace.

Judge Getzendanner also implicated the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Radiology as coconspirators with the AMA.

SOURCE: Medicine on Trial, Charles Inlander, Lowell Levin, Ed Weiner, pp 160-162