Terran Medical Association

*Created by: Garry stahl
*Appearance: None in game yet.
*Number of Members: in the thousands 
*Nature of Members: Doctors of Xeno-medicine and Healers
*Organization: Professional Association
*Game Role: A sign of the changes.
*World Role: To regulate the practice of medicine in the Twenty-first century and beyond 
*Relative Influence: Minor as of yet.
*Public or Secret?: Public
*Publicly Stated Goal: To regulate the practice of medicine in the Twenty-first century and beyond. 
*Relative Wealth: Minor, just getting started. 
*Group advantages: A little more flexible than the AMA
*Group disadvantages: New and small
*Those who favor them: Doctors of the the new generation.
*Those opposed to them: The inflexible that don't want the profession changing.
*Area of Operation: World wide
*Headquarters Location: Los Angeles, United States
*Public Face: Doctors of the Bright New Present
*Notable Members: Julian Valion -- Healing Teacher at UCLA<P>Dr. Benjamen Patric Carver -- Real old time Doctor gone Healer.</p><P>Seelein -- Healer on the CDSS Calaban
*History of the Organization: Terran Medical Association was started with two goals in mind. The first to incorporate the new practice of medicine that deals with both non Humans and with Magic, to wit Xeno-Doctors and Healers. The second it to establish a world wide medical standard of practice, not merely one for a single nation.</P><P>The first goal is to move forward without reservation on the matter of Doctors treating the non-Human patient. The practice of the Xeno-Doctor is closer to the Veterinarian in the knowledge base required. Aliens can differ in vast and very important ways. The treatment for one is deadly to another. They also incorporate the Healer tradition of treating anything alive. From the President to your ant farm. The AMA makes some very hard distinctions between Human Doctors and Veterinarians.</P><P>The second goal is perhaps the more far reaching and difficult. To create a single licensing body for the entire planet. A TMA Doctor should be able to use their medical knowledge over all the Earth and beyond.</P><P>In practice the TMA is structured very like the AMA with the noted exceptions. Talks are ongoing with various national government over the licensing issue. Sadly standards are not the major stumbling block, the squeeze is.</P><P>The TMA is open to membership from national organizations and will gladly incorporate any national group that agrees to the standards of the TMA. They are talking to the AMA. The Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board of Kenya has already signed up as has the Association Médicale Haïtienne à l'Étranger in Haiti,and the National Council of the College of Physicians in France. It is noted as goes France so will go the EU.
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Category:Medicine
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