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Election Issue Follow-Up
Published Online: 21 December 2001

Candidates for President-Elect Respond

Marcia Kraft Goin, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations
Publication: Psychiatric News
Volume 36, Number 24
https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.36.24.0004a
Marcia Kraft Goin, M.D.
APA stands poised at a crossroads of opportunity. The tragic events of September 11 elicited a spirited and determined response from our members. The crucial importance of psychiatry to the commonweal of our nation has at long last been acknowledged.

We must battle to:

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Urgently improve access to quality care for children and adults. Despite the economic downturn, this effort should be unflagging.
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Assure the passage of patient protection legislation to defeat egregious managed care practices, which have compromised quality care and stripped medicine of many of its resources.
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Eliminate the “for-profit” carveout of psychiatric services.
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Rebuild public psychiatry, which has been severely weakened by unwise fiscal policies. The safety net has been replaced by the correctional system.
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Strengthen our business outreach.
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Advance fresh and creative ideas in psychiatric education while defending our place in the overall medical school curriculum.
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Demonstrate to residency directors the effectiveness of teaching advanced strategies in the psychotherapies.
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Protect our patients from the proposed psychologists’ prescribing laws.
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Maintain the primacy of psychiatric physicians in providing psychotherapy.
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Preserve doctor-patient confidentiality.
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Sustain the growing strength of our district branches with increased resources.
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Support our alliances with patient advocacy groups.
To accomplish these goals, we have striven to make budget cuts and re-allocate APA’s resources. The reshaping of APA, contrary to my opponent’s claims, has been under way for the past three years. As your vice president I actively led in:
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Reworking our direction and priorities, examining every sector of organizational life to determine where to cut back, cut out, enlarge, shift, and recast our infrastructure.
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Making decisions based on the firm knowledge of our organizational priorities, strengths, and weaknesses.
I have a strong commitment to our profession. My deep background as educator, clinician, researcher, and administrator will serve you well. I am an experienced APA leader looking to our future with vigor and optimism. As your elected president, with grit and resolve I will fight relentlessly to keep psychiatry and the plight of our patients a major public issue.

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