Dr. Nancy Nielsen, the incoming president of the American Medical Association (AMA), delivers a moving inaugural speech to the 2008 AMA House of Delegates in Chicago. Dr. Nielsen touches on several major issues, with a broad focus on the economic challenges and scientific demands of rebuilding our healthcare system. She calls on the healthcare community, the insurance industry, employers and our government to work cohesively with our patients to battle "our real enemies: disease and untimely death."
