Year: 2010
Resolution Number: 54
Action Taken: Disapproved
Status:
Author(s): Ponon Dileep Kumar, MD
Sponsor: Michael L. Gambel, MD
On behalf of: International Medical Graduate Section
Committee: D (Public Health)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to study the issues involved in regulating, monitoring, and ensuring the safety of various self-help programs.RATIONALE: The Committee received limited testimony on this issue. The resolution came from recent cases involving self-help groups that resulted in injuries and deaths such as the sweat lodge deaths in Arizona. The Committee agreed that some of these self-help rules function outside of acceptable behavior. However, the Committee could not determine how to effectively regulate, monitor, and ensure the safety of the numerous and diverse self-help programs.
RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to study the issues involved in regulating, monitoring, and ensuring the safety of various self-help programs.RATIONALE: The Committee received limited testimony on this issue. The resolution came from recent cases involving self-help groups that resulted in injuries and deaths such as the sweat lodge deaths in Arizona. The Committee agreed that some of these self-help rules function outside of acceptable behavior. However, the Committee could not determine how to effectively regulate, monitor, and ensure the safety of the numerous and diverse self-help programs.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Monitoring and Regulating Self-Help Programs