Month: March 2020

On behalf of the Board and staff of the Catholic Medical Association, I bid you a Happy Doctor’s Day! Doctor’s Day comes each year. This anniversary seems to have more significance as the healthcare community and nation as a whole advance to confront the coronavirus pandemic.  For me, this day helps summon memories of why I…

MyCatholicDoctor is happy to assist any CMA member that would like to get started with telehealth, either within our organization or just within your own practice. MyCatholicDoctor is a nation-wide telehealth organization with a mission to make Catholic healthcare available to everyone. Many CMA members are active providers with MyCatholicDoctor. For further information, please see…

The Ethics Committee of the Catholic Medical Association Catholic physicians and health care workers for centuries have led the world in the care for the most vulnerable during times of crisis. Recalling our commissioning by the Divine Physician, the Catholic Christian physician has a special calling—different from the secular world—in that he or she sees…

Article courtesy of Tom Tracy/ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE WEST PALM BEACH, Florida – The tsunami of fear around the COVID-19 pandemic and the way it caught the world’s medical community often lacking resources, testing and protective equipment is now testing the faith of U.S. medical professionals. “Priorities have changed significantly since the pandemic,” said Dr.…

This article has been submitted to The Linacre Quarterly for publication and is included on the CMA website with the permission of Sage Publications. “And I saw a river over which every soul must pass to reach the Kingdom of Heaven, and the name of that river was suffering… and then I saw a boat…

As representatives of over 30,000 physicians who practice according to the Hippocratic Oath, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), the American College of Pediatricians, Christian Medical & Dental Associations, the Catholic Medical Association, and the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons decry the call to continue elective abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic…

“There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. ​ There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already born for us, and does not now bear with us.” -St. John Paul II Dear Members, As I look…

As Coronavirus continues to spread across the United States, the Catholic Medical Association has called on its infectious disease specialists to compile some best practices to consider for celebrating Mass and preventing the spread of the disease (see below). COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus discovered in China in January 2020, has since…