Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality. – Mother Jones November/December 1997.

Huston Smith
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The American Medical Association is a group of doctors who were formed by the merger of the American Medical Association and the American College of Physicians. According to Mother Jones magazine, they spend most of their time on trivial issues and buying more power for themselves. They spend a great deal of money making their members look good, though they seem to be out of touch with the needs and concerns of their constituents.

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