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Infobox pic?
What is the infobox pic showing? I lived in Rogers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the part of Rogers shown is after my time. Would definitely help to indicate just what I'm looking at here, and there is neither a caption for the image, nor a description on the image page. However, by the looks of it, it looks like a fairly generic shopping center. Wouldn't showing the downtown area, such as a view of the brick section of Walnut Street or along First Street, or even the caboose display be more appropriate for a lead pic? SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:29, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

I recognize the photo you are talking about - it is a view from the Pinnacle Hills Promenade south of town in Rogers, and I do believe it was built after you left. I will see if we can improve on this.--Traveler7 (talk) 16:36, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Arkansas Assessment
Upgraded WikiProject Arkansas to Mid importance as Rogers, AR fits the criteria. C class on assessment, we still have a lot of work to do on this one, and Low Importance for WP Cities because of population. --Traveler7 (talk) 16:19, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

"The City"?
Is there any reason for a nickname used by high school students to appear in the article at all, much less in the intro? —C.Fred (talk) 21:12, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

 * The Rogers Morning Newspaper this morning announced a nickname as "The City" anyone who does not want the addition added please respond here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaloevera (talk • contribs) 21:21, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

 * What authority does the local paper have to declare a nickname for Rogers? If the nickname is in common, widespread use, then it might warrant inclusion in the article. —C.Fred (talk) 21:23, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Cross triple on Cross Church Pinnacle Hills
Can someone please upload pictures from the three crosses on Cross Church Pinnacle Hills described on https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMEMYH_Cross_Church_Pinnacle_Hills_Three_Crosses_Rogers_AR

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Osage Creek
On the Osage River page there was confusion over how the river could be in Arkansas. I checked maps and USGS GNIS, and it seems the stream at Siloam Springs is Osage Creek, not river. Pfly 00:29, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Name Removal
I removed a bunch of non-notable names from the Government section. I'd love to see so many things added to this article, e.g. expanded information about the annual Dogwood Festival, History of the city and its original founders, etc. before I think it's important to put names of current officials. Of course, if you disagree, feel free to add the list back. Tim Morgan 15:35, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Lesson learned: Turn my work computer off at night
Somebody cut out the reference to "West Siloam Springs" using my work computer, which I'd left on at night. I'll stop doing that. Sorry for the inconvenience. The cut later was restored.

I will point out that the cut was technically correct, however. West Siloam Springs is a separate town with its own city council, etc. I don't know who made the cut, but this computer is at a newspaper that covers Benton County, Arkansas. Whoever made the cut did know what he or she was talking about, but should have listed a credible source. I'll see what I can do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.172.7.178 (talk) 17:23, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

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Education
The football team information was relocated from the top of the article. Though I don't live in the area — or perhaps because of it — the writing of this particular section seems highly subjective. Someone needs to expand it to a proper education section, and eventually take out details that are sure to become dated in the coming weeks. — ArkansasTraveler 23:08, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

 * The football information is now dated and needs to be revised. The high school football championships are significant for the community, but the current presentation is more a sports excerpt than a proper part of an article. RebelAt 18:09, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Then maybe a new article all together? AngryStudent 20:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I updated the bit about Springdale being the 3rd largest city and Fayetteville's census being incomplete. According to http://www.nwarktimes.com/nwat/News/41735/ Fayetteville pop. is now 67,020, surpassing Springdale. Also if someone could make the Fayetteville name a hotlink (like Little Rock and Ft. Smith already are) I'd appreciate it.

Could someone add...
The Jone's center is a unique Point of Intrest in Springdale and should be included on the Springdale page (IMO). I don't know beans about how to do anything on wiki so if someone could add a blerb about the Jones Center and perhaps a link? The Jones center is a very cool free place to go swim or ice skate. They have a free computers to use and hold free classes. The cool thing is that most everything is FREE!

http://www.jonesnet.org/index.html

Population Gain
Hey, the population of the city as of 2000 was approximately 46,000. The most recent Census Bureau estimates place the population upwards of about 70,000. That is a HUGE gain over the decade. I'm wondering if this is due most to migration to the city, or if a lot of this can be chalked up to annexation of surrounding unincorporated lands? --Criticalthinker (talk) 03:12, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

This is mostly due to the growth of NWA in the past decade. Springdale is home of Tyson and neighbor city Bentonville is home to Walmart. So it is not due to annexation, but rather large migration to the region.Squanie92 (talk) 04:24, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Immigration, esp. Latinos from Mexico, contributed to the population gain. Although the Black population is low and below average for a southern city, Springdale has the largest Marshallese population in the mainland USA (see Marshall Islands), about 4.5% of the city population. The Springdale-Fayetteville area has a sizable Native American (Cherokee) population, they are 40 miles east of Oklahoma, where the Cherokee Nation is located. 2605:E000:FDCA:4200:24F3:157C:31F4:1568 (talk) 14:12, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Photo
That photo looks nice but the problem is that it is a picture of someone's cow pasture near Springdale and not a photo of the city itself. I live in Rogers and I will see if I can take a pic to improve on this in the near future, unless someone already has a good one available.--Traveler7 (talk) 20:39, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Added one I took of Emma Avenue today.  Brandonrush   Woo pig soooooooie!  00:51, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

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Black or black (redundancy)
I'm getting afraid to even think of editing this Wikipedia, 'cause almost half the time, my edits get reverted and I get scolded due to it. I've been editing Simple English and English Wikipedia since August 2010; and that's almost eight years! The reason I changed the lower case black to African American is due to the repeated word and the redundant nature of the wording in Springdale, Arkansas. I cannot afford being blocked, 'cause if that were to happen, I wouldn't know how to request unblocks without my talk page access getting yanked away. Angela Maureen (talk) 01:03, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
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Notable persons section
I deleted Kiehl Frazier, but it was reverted. I lived in Springdale +20 years, and don't consider him 'notable'. Good comparison is Mitch Mustain, who isn't on this list. I would consider him more 'notable' than Frazier, hence the deletion.

I am not concerned with anyone else on this list, just Frazier, and that I don't think he belongs on this list.

Plus he was hardly relevant in college, take a look at his stats. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.58.115.11 (talk) 12:44, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Adding school information
User:John from Idegon seems to think my edit (here) warranted unexplained removal, simply saying "off topic". A later explanation seems to have more taken issue with 'my attitude' than the valuable and sourced content and appropriate photos of the subject. Wikipedia policy: it is preferable for good faith (and, in fact, positive contributions) to the article remain in the article pending consensus. This policy was not followed by the User, instead an unexplained removal of sourced content and a combative message was provided.

I suppose User has decreed unilaterally the fact that the Don Tyson School of Innovation is a public charter in contrast to the other two traditional public high schools and one Christian high school is not important to the subject of secondary education in Springdale. Or that the school is newer that the other schools. Maybe this information could be noted on the school's page, but no page exists and I did not want to make a two sentence stub which would've likely been smitten out of existence by User. One of the four high schools in a city being a public charter warrants mention on the secondary education section of the page, and certainly isn't controversial enough to warrant unexplained removal.

User noted the page is "an already extremely cluttered low quality article" but apparently does not find even the most basic information about a high school as relevant to the subtopic of secondary education in the city. With User's strict unilateral gauge of what is "on topic", it is hard to see a future for this page, if this content is so extraneous as to warrant unexplained deletion.  Brandonrush Woo pig sooie!  01:10, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

climate data
We were using an incomplete version of the weatherbox at Fayetteville,_Arkansas for this town, ... the climate is similar but not identical to this town, so I removed it for the sake of accuracy. Springdale has no official weather station currently or recently in operation. — Soap — 17:20, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

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The American Medical Association (AMA) is an American professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students. Founded in 1847, it is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Membership was 271,660 in 2022.

The AMA's stated mission is "to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health." The organization was founded with the goal to raise the standards of medicine in the 19th century primarily through gaining control of education and licensing. In the 20th century, the AMA has frequently lobbied to restrict the supply of physicians, contributing to a doctor shortage in the United States. The organization has also lobbied against allowing physician assistants and other health care providers to perform basic forms of health care. The organization has historically lobbied against various forms of government-run health insurance.

The Association also publishes the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The AMA also publishes a list of Physician Specialty Codes which are the standard method in the U.S. for identifying physician and practice specialties.

The American Medical Association is governed by a House of Delegates as well as a board of trustees in addition to executive management. The organization maintains the AMA Code of Medical Ethics, and the AMA Physician Masterfile containing data on United States Physicians. The Current Procedural Terminology coding system was first published in 1966 and is maintained by the Association. It has also published works such as the Guides to Evaluation of Permanent Impairment and established the American Medical Association Foundation and the American Medical Political Action Committee. The current president is Jesse Ehrenfeld, an anesthesiologist affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin.

1847–1900
In 1846, the organization created a committee dedicated to analyzing the methodology of vital records registration. It urged state governments to adopt measures to register births, marriages and deaths within their populations. In 1847, the American Medical Association was founded in Philadelphia by Nathan Smith Davis as a national professional medical organization. The organization educated people about the dangers of patent medicines and called for legislation regulating their production and sale. One resulting legislation was the Drug Importation Act of 1848.

In 1848, the AMA began publishing Transactions of the American Medical Association, which included lists and reports of cases of physiological effects of ether and chloroform at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the New York Hospital and the clinics of the University of Pennsylvania and Jefferson Medical College.

At the organization's second meeting in 1849, Thomas Wood suggested a committee on medical science to establish a board to analyze quack remedies and nostrums to be published in order to inform the public about the dangers of such remedies. The AMA's attempts to expose quack remedies aided the passage of the first Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.

The AMA Committee on Ethics advocated for recognition of qualified female physicians in 1869, and the AMA inducted its first female member, Sarah Hackett Stevenson, as an Illinois State Medical Society delegate in 1876.

In 1872, the AMA's book Nomenclature of Diseases was published. In 1883, the AMA launched the Journal of the American Medical Association. The organization's founder, Nathan Smith Davis, served as the first editor of the publication.

In 1897, the AMA was incorporated in the state of Illinois.

AMA pushed for laws requiring compulsory smallpox vaccinations in 1899. In 1899, the AMA appointed a committee to report on tuberculosis, including on its communicability and prevention. The Committee on Tuberculosis presented its report in October 1900.

1901–1920
In 1901, the AMA was reorganized with its central authority shifted to a House of Delegates, a board of trustees, and executive offices. The House of Delegates was modeled after the United States House of Representatives and included representatives from medical organizations across the United States as a formal, reform-minded legislative body. The organization's new president appointed a Committee on Medical Education in order to evaluate medical education in the United States and make recommendations for its improvement.

The AMA's Committee on National Legislation established the Committee on Medical Legislation in 1901.

AMA created the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry in 1905 to set standards for drug manufacturing and advertising. That same year, the AMA began a voluntary program of drug approval, which would remain in effect until 1955. Drug companies were required to show proof of the effectiveness of their drugs to advertise them in AMA's journal.

In 1906, the AMA established a Physician Masterfile designed to contain data on physicians in the United States as well as graduates of American medical schools and international graduates who are in the United States. Each file is established when an individual either enters medical schools or enters the United States.

The AMA established the Council for the Defense of Medical Research in 1908. AMA's Council on Medical Education and Hospitals first published its annual list of hospitals approved for internships in 1914.

1921–1960
In May 1922, the Woman's Auxiliary to the AMA was organized. The following year, the AMA established standards for medical specialty training residency programs. The AMA later published its first list of hospitals approved for residency training in 1927.

In 1927, Congress passed the Caustic Poison Act, lobbied for by the AMA, which required product labels to include warnings if they included lye or 10 other caustic chemicals.

In 1933, the AMA's general medical guide the Standard Classified Nomenclature of Disease, (referred to as the Standard), was released. Along with the New York Academy of Medicine, the APA provided the psychiatric nomenclature subsection. A number of revisions were produced, with the last in 1961.

The Normal Diet, a comprehensive listing of what Americans should be eating, was published by the AMA in 1938.

A formal partnership between the AMA and the Association of American Medical Colleges formed the Liaison Committee on Medical Education in 1942 in order to establish requirements for certification of medical schools. In 1951, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals was created through merging the Hospital Standardization Program with quality standards from the American College of Physicians, the American Hospital Association, and the American Medical Association. The commission, established for evaluation and accreditation of healthcare organizations in the United States, governed by a board of commissioners including physicians, consumers and administrators.

The AMA publicly endorsed the principle of fluoridation of community water supplies in 1951.

1961–1980
The AMA first published the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding system in 1966. The system was created for uniform reporting of outpatient physician services. The first manual was 163 pages and contained only four-digit codes with descriptions of each. A second edition of the book was published in 1970 with a fifth digit added.

The AMA published the first Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment in 1971. The guides were later republished in 1977 before the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs created 12 committees to review the guides before the second edition was published in 1984.

In the 1970s, the AMA spoke out against gender discrimination in medical institutions. In 1975, the AMA adopted a policy stating that "discrimination based on sexual orientation is improper and unacceptable by any part of the federation of medicine." It adopted a resolution to repeal all state sodomy laws. In 1976, the AMA began encouraging all public facilities to have handicap access.

1981–2000
The AMA released a survey in 1981 that found two short-term effects of dioxin on humans and recommended further studies. By 1983, the AMA accused the news media of conducting a "witch hunt" against the toxic chemical and launched a public information campaign to counter media hysteria.

In May 1983, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a report that reviewed cases of childhood AIDS.

A Federal district judge ruled that the AMA had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1987 by depriving chiropractors of access to the Association. The lawsuit, filed by four chiropractors, accused AMA of conspiring to prevent chiropractors from practicing in the United States.

The Journal of the American Medical Association first documented that Joe Camel cartoons reached more children than adults in December 1991. The Association called for the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to stop using the Joe Camel character in its advertising because of its appeal to youth.

In 1995, Lonnie R. Bristow became the first African-American president of the American Medical Association. Before he became president, Bristow was the first African-American member of the board of trustees and first African-American chairman of the board.

In 1996, the AMA campaigned against health plan "gag clauses", which prohibited doctors from discussing with their patients treatments not covered by the plan, stating that the stipulations inhibit the communication of information and restrict the care doctors can give their patients. The clauses were removed from the contracts of five leading providers, and laws prohibiting such clauses were passed in 16 states.

In 1997, the AMA established the National Patient Safety Foundation as an independent, nonprofit research and education organization focused on patient safety.

Nancy W. Dickey was named president of the American Medical Association in June 1998. She was the first woman to head the organization and had been part of AMA's leadership since 1977.

2000–present
In 2002, the AMA released a report that found a medical liability insurance crisis in at least a dozen states was forcing physicians to either close practices or limit services. The association called for Congress to take action and campaigned for national reform.

In 2008, the AMA issued a formal apology for previous policies that excluded African-Americans from the organization and announced increased efforts to increase minority physician participation.

The AMA officially recognized obesity as a disease in 2013 in an attempt to change how the medical community approaches the issue.

In 2015, the AMA declared there is no medically valid reason to exclude transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military. The Human Rights Campaign lauded the decision.

Patrice A. Harris became the AMA's 174th president in June 2019, the organization's first African-American woman to hold this position.

The AMA sponsors the Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee, which is an influential group of 29 physicians, mostly specialists, who help determine the value of different physicians' labor in Medicare prices.

Policy positions
The AMA has one of the largest political lobbying budgets of any organization in the United States. Its political positions throughout its history have often been controversial.

Lobbying
Between 1998 and 2020, the association has spent an average of $18 million annually on lobbying efforts. In the first quarter of 2021, they reported $6.36 million in lobbying expenses.

Restrictions on physician supply
The AMA has at various points in history advocated for restricting the supply of physicians. In the early 20th century, the AMA lobbied lawmakers to shut down medical schools on grounds that they were substandard, which in turn reduced the supply of doctors. The AMA lobbied for reductions in physician supply during the Great Depression. In 1997, the AMA lobbied Congress to restrict the number of doctors that could be trained in the United States, claiming that, "The United States is on the verge of a serious oversupply of physicians." The AMA successfully lobbied Congress to cap how much Medicare could reimburse hospitals for resident physicians, which reduced residency training. In the decades following these restrictions on physician supply, the United States has a shortage of doctors. The United States was forecasted to have a shortage of 46,900 to 121,900 physicians by 2032. As a consequence of the restrictions on medical training in the United States, a quarter of physicians in the United States were trained abroad by 2022.

In the 1930s, the AMA attempted to prohibit its members from working for the health maintenance organizations established during the Great Depression, which violated the Sherman Antitrust Act and resulted in a conviction ultimately affirmed by the US Supreme Court.

In 1982, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a Federal Trade Commission order that allowed doctors and dentists to advertise without professional association interference. The order restrained the AMA from its power to obstruct agreements between physicians and health maintenance organizations.

The AMA has lobbied to restrict the ability of physician assistants to provide services with less oversight from doctors.

In 2007, the AMA called for state and federal agencies to investigate potential conflicts of interest between the retail clinics and pharmacy chains.

Opposition to expanded health care access
In 1917, the AMA endorsed compulsory health insurance, but the organization faced backlash from its state-level societies for this position. The AMA established a policy of opposition to compulsory health insurance by state or federal government in 1920.

A 1932 editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Society denounced a proposal for government-backed voluntary health insurance system.

In the 1940s, the AMA opposed President Harry Truman's proposed healthcare reforms, which would have expanded healthcare facilities in low-income and rural communities, bolstered public health services, increased investments in medical research and education, and provided a payroll-tax-financed, government-run health insurance plan to help relieve the burden of excessive healthcare bills from sick persons. The AMA condemned Truman's plan as "socialized medicine". The AMA charged each of its members an extra 25 dollars to finance a lobbying campaign against the Truman plan.

In 1961, the AMA opposed the King-Anderson bill proposing Medicare legislation and took out advertisements in newspapers, radio and television against government health insurance. The AMA established the American Medical Political Action Committee, which was separate from AMA though the Association nominated its board of directors. The AMA's efforts to defeat Medicare legislation was called Operation Coffee Cup. the AMA produced the LP, "Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine". The AMA created an "Eldercare" proposal rather than hospital insurance through Social Security. Since the enactment of Medicare, the AMA reversed its position and now opposes any "cut to Medicare funding or shift [of] increased costs to beneficiaries at the expense of the quality or accessibility of care".

The AMA did not take a position on Bill Clinton's proposed health care reform.

The AMA supported the Barack Obama administration's health care reform. In 2009, the American Medical Association released a public letter to the United States Congress and President Barack Obama endorsing his proposed overhaul to the public health care system, including universal health coverage. The following year, it offered "qualified support" for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The AMA supported the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, which introduced Medicare reforms and replaced the SGR formula with increased Medicare physician reimbursement.

The AMA opposed Republicans' proposed repeal of the Affordable Care Act in March 2017, saying millions of Americans would lose health care coverage.

The AMA has historically opposed single-payer health care.

Substance use and addiction
The AMA's Committee on Alcoholism issued a statement in 1956 calling alcoholism an illness and encouraging medical personnel and institutions to admit and treat alcoholic patients.

In 1972, the AMA launched a "war on smoking" and supported legislation that would prohibit tobacco sample disbursement.

In the early 1980s, the AMA advocated for raising the national legal drinking age to 21.

The AMA called for a ban on advertising and promotion of all tobacco products in any form of media. The AMA also proposed declaring snuff and chewing tobacco a health hazard, increasing the tax on cigarettes, prohibiting smoking on public transportation and urged medical facilities to ban smoking on their premises.

In 2014, the Association created the AMA Opioid Task Force to evaluate prescription opioid use and abuse.

Medical malpractice reform
The AMA has supported changes in medical malpractice law to limit damage awards, which, it contends, makes it difficult for patients to find appropriate medical care. In many states, high risk specialists have moved to other states that have enacted reform. For example, in 2004, all neurosurgeons had relocated out of the entire southern half of Illinois. The main legislative emphasis in multiple states has been to effect caps on the amount that patients can receive for pain and suffering. These costs for pain and suffering are only those that exceed the actual costs of healthcare and lost income. At the same time however, states without caps also experienced similar results, suggesting that other market factors may have contributed to the decreases. Some economic studies have found that caps have historically had an uncertain effect on premium rates. A recent report by the AMA found that, in a 12-month period, five percent of physicians had claims filed against them.

Structural racism controversy and outcomes
On a February 2021 JAMA podcast a Deputy Editor of the journal proposed that "structural racism is an unfortunate term to describe a very real problem," and that "taking racism out of the conversation would help" to ensure "all people who lived in disadvantaged circumstance have equal opportunities to become successful and have better qualities of life." In addition to the comments made during the podcast, JAMA then tweeted out the podcast with the caption "No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care" which further added to the controversy. The subsequent controversy led the Deputy Editor and the JAMA editor-in-chief Howard Bauchner to resign. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo was chosen as Bauchner's replacement making her the first person of color and second woman to ever lead the journal.

After the podcast structural racism controversy in 2021, the AMA published a paper that included recommendations to help improve health equity and address structural racism which would encourage "explicit conversations about power, racism, gender and class oppression, forms of discrimination and exclusion." Its "Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts" document asked "questions about language and commonly used phrases and terms, with the goal of cultivating awareness about dominant narratives and offering equity-based, equity-explicit, and person-first alternatives."

Political donations
The association has donated between $1.6 million and $3.4 million in election cycles between 1990 and 2020. Their distributions have varied from near parity for both Democrats and Republicans to heavily favoring Republican candidates at 75% in the 1996 and 2004 elections. Between 1990 and 2020, the majority of contributions came from PAC money.

Criticism
During the Civil Rights Movement, the American Medical Association's policy of allowing its constituent groups to be racially segregated in areas with widespread prejudice faced opposition from doctors as well as other healthcare professionals. Pressure from organizations such as the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) resulted in changed policies by the late 1960s.

Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, as well as his wife, Rose Friedman, have claimed that the organization acts as a guild and has attempted to increase physicians' wages and fees by influencing limitations on the supply of physicians and competition from non-physicians. In the book Free to Choose, the Friedmans stated that "the AMA has engaged in extensive litigation charging chiropractors and osteopathic physicians with the unlicensed practice of medicine, in an attempt to restrict them to as narrow an area as possible." The AMA was also criticized for holding up licensing of foreign-trained medical professionals who, after Adolf Hitler came to power, were fleeing to the U.S. from Nazi-controlled Germany and adjacent nations. Profession and Monopoly also criticized the AMA for limiting the supply of physicians and inflating the cost of medical care in the U.S. as well as its influence on hospital regulation. In a 1987 antitrust court case, a federal district judge called the AMA's behavior toward chiropractors "systematic, long-term wrongdoing". The AMA was accused of limiting the associations between physicians and chiropractors. In the 1960s and 1970s, the association's Committee on Quackery was said to have targeted the chiropractic profession, and for many years the AMA held that it was unethical for physicians to refer patients to chiropractors or to receive referrals from chiropractors.

In October 2020, the association used Twitter and Facebook to publicly oppose scope of practice creep, where non-physicians are permitted to provide healthcare services without physician oversight. The posts were removed the same day and the AMA commented that they were committed to "team-based healthcare guided by a physician" to "optimize patient outcomes." The American Academy of Physician Assistants published a letter expressing their frustration at the social media posts. Rebekah Bernard from the advocacy group Physicians for Patient Protection publicly criticized the AMA for retracting their social media posts.

In 2024, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and physicist Alan Sokal co-authored an op-ed in The Boston Globe criticizing the use of the terminology "sex assigned at birth" instead of "sex" by the AMA, the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dawkins and Sokal argued that sex is an "objective biological reality" that "is determined at conception and is then observed at birth," rather than assigned by a medical professional. Calling this "social constructionism gone amok," Dawkins and Sokal argued further that "distort[ing] the scientific facts in the service of a social cause" risks undermining trust in medical institutions.

Structure
The AMA is composed of policy discussion groups that meet twice a year for an annual meeting and an Interim meeting. Within the AMA, there are sections that include Medical Students, Resident and Fellows, Academic physicians, Medical School Deans and Faculty, Physicians in group practice setting, Retired and Senior Physicians, International Medical graduates, Woman physicians, Physician Diversity and Minority health, GLBT, USAN, AMA board of Trustees, Foundation and Council. External organizations, called AMA member organizations, come to these meetings by sending representatives. Representatives come from a state, specialty or the federal services/government service medical societies.

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"Although Bergman has a school district as part of the Arkansas school consolidation of 1929, it is now largely a residential community." How are those things contradictory? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:470:EA71:1:3CEE:6F7F:715E:AC37 (talk) 16:29, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

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Does anyone know who this town was named after?

Nope, sorry, but I'm researching it. I'll be sure to tell you when I find the origins of the name! Fuzzy

The city of Harrison Arkansas was named after a Union General by the name of Gen. M. LaRue Harrison who surveyed the townsite. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.178.74.138 (talk) 04:14, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/marcus-larue-harrison-1665/ Source for namesake.

Yes and no
Well is harrison a place for youth. probably not. But its seniors have alot of benefits. The Police are 1 officer for ever 200 civilians. The recreation Cost you Alot for what you make. And the Census is wrong about 65.32% of the population of harrison is below poverty. If your want to know how i know? My family has been around for about 800 years or so. yes thats right since before R.J. Haury's Son ever set up his logging camp here.

-- 162.40.175.36 07:02, 23 January 2006

Perhaps a separate section for the history of racism and Task Force on Race Relations?
It can distract from those that want to learn about other history of the town having it just in the "21st century" section, and that can be helped through a new section that can give further background on the fight between both sides in the town. Argeadai (talk) 03:04, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Argeadai, what two sides? There really has been only one side in Harrison for over a century. — Jacona (talk) 15:46, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The fact that a task force on race relations exists prove otherwise. Read the 21st century section Argeadai (talk) 04:59, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

The history could be expanded especially as there is little mention of the large amounts of industry in the town. A specific section for racial history might imply that it is not a part of the main history of the town, which is not true. Any information added regarding local government action or business development would strengthen the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by E2522 (talk • contribs) 18:20, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The history section doesn't meet the criteria for a WP:SPLIT, and there is no need to add content just to "puff up" the good stuff. That would unbalance the article, per WP:UNDUE, and would deprive readers of an honest and encyclopedic impression of this city. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:52, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

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Tornado history
There have been at least two tornadoes in Warren. The first occurred on January 3, 1949, killing 55 people and injuring 435. The other was on March 28, 1975, killing 7 people and injuring 51. Both were rated F4.--Kevjgav (talk) 07:15, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

The sources I used were http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/worstts.htm and http://www.ericsweatherlibrary.com/f4f5/ and these are reliable sources in my mind.--Kevjgav (talk) 07:30, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

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Charlotte Smith (basketball)

Charlotte Smith (born August 23, 1973) is a retired American professional women's basketball player for the Charlotte Sting, Washington Mystics and Indiana Fever in the WNBA, and for the Colorado Xplosion and San Jose Lasers in the ABL. She is currently the women's basketball head coach at Elon University.

Playing career
After excelling as a basketball player at Shelby High School in Shelby, North Carolina, Smith played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels. As a freshman, she was selected as women's basketball Rookie of the Year for the Atlantic Coast Conference. She was named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship in 1994 when she hit the championship-winning shot for the Tar Heels at the buzzer. In the same game, Smith tied an NCAA Tournament record with 23 rebounds. She was named National College Player of the Year by ESPN in 1995, was named a first-team collegiate All-American by Kodak/WBCA and the Associated Press, and is one of only two North Carolina women's basketball players to have had her jersey retired. She was named most valuable player of the ACC Tournament in her junior and senior years. She also became the second female college basketball player ever to dunk during a game on December 4, 1994. In 2002, Smith was named to the ACC's Fiftieth Anniversary Team.

After her collegiate eligibility ended in 1995, Smith joined a professional basketball club in Italy. She was named Most Valuable Player of the Italian league's All-Star game for the 1995–1996 season.

In 1996, Smith was selected by the Colorado Xplosion in the third round of the initial draft held by the newly formed ABL. She played one season with Colorado, then was traded to the San Jose Lasers. As a Laser, she was named to the ABL All-Star team for the 1997–1998 season.

Following the ABL's cessation of operations in 1999, Smith participated in the 1999 WNBA Draft, where the Charlotte Sting chose her with the 33rd overall pick. She played six seasons with the Sting. During offseasons, she interned with the Sting's front office, worked with US Sport Management, Inc., played a second winter season in Italy in 1999–2000, and served as an UNC women's basketball  assistant coach for several seasons. Smith also earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from UNC in 1999.

Smith joined the WNBA's Washington Mystics for the 2005 season. She was briefly affiliated with the Indiana Fever at the start of the 2006 season.

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USA Basketball
Smith was named to the USA U18 team (then called the Junior World Championship Qualifying Team) in 1992. The team competed in Guanajuato, Mexico in August 1992. The team won their first four games, then lost 80–70 to Brazil, finishing with the silver medal for the event, but qualifying for the 1993 world games. Smith averaged 5.2 points per game during the event.

Smith represented the US at the 1995 World University Games held in Fukuoka, Japan in August and September 1995. The team had a record of 5–1, securing the silver medal. The USA team won early and reached a record of 5–0 when the USA beat Yugoslavia. In the semi-final game, the USA faced Russia. The team was behind much of the first half but managed to tie the game at the half. The USA broke the game open in the second half and won 101–74, with Smith recording a double-double with 14 points, 14 rebounds along with seven assists. The gold medal match was against unbeaten Italy. The Italian team started strong, scoring 12 of the first 14 points of the contest. Sylvia Crawley scored eight consecutive points to end the first half, but that left the USA nine points behind. The USA took a small lead in the second half, but the team from Italy responded with a ten-point run, and won the game and the gold medal by a score of 73–65. Smith was the third leading scorer for the team with 13.7 points per game, and led the team in rebounds with 7.9 per game.

Smith was invited to be a member of the Jones Cup team representing the US in 1996. She helped the team to a 9–0 record, and the gold medal in the event. Smith averaged 9.7 points per game, the highest scoring average on the team, and was named the All-Tournament MVP.

Coaching career
In 2002, Charlotte Smith joined the North Carolina Tar Heels women's basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach. Smith would help lead the Tar Heels to four straight number one seeds in the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship from 2005 to 2008. Her teams were ACC regular season champions in 2005, 2006 and 2008 and claimed the ACC Tournament title in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Smith was a part of two Final Four teams while on the North Carolina staff.

On June 22, 2011, Smith was named the head women's basketball coach at Elon University, becoming the sixth head coach in program history. In her first season leading the Phoenix, she set a new school record for wins by a first-year head coach. Charlotte Smith was named the 2017 CAA Coach of the Year and Elon won its first CAA Regular Season title and its first CAA Conference tournament title in Division 1 History. Elon also earned its first bid in the NCAA tournament in school history.

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title: Charlotte Smith (basketball)


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User talk:Catalyst

Hello, Catalyst. Welcome to Wikipedia.

A few tips for you to start going. (I'll send more if I see that I can help you :-)

 * Just edit stuff off the cuff for a while. We like that!
 * When you have time, check out Welcome, newcomers + the links in there.
 * You can sign your stuff on talk pages with ~ It will convert to your username + the time. "anon" is fine too.
 * If puzzled, put a question on Village pump, or feel free to ask me on my talk page if it's a very general question.
 * Most of all, have fun but take our work seriously!

-- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 03:08 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)

title: User talk:Catalyst