No, Dr. McKalip, this is not "funny stuff". It's blatant and hateful racism at its worst and you, especially as a physician and representative of the American Medical Association, should be absolutely ashamed of attacking our President with such filth, regardless of your political views.

Fellow Kossacks, please take a moment to share your thoughts with Dr. McKalip on his racist behavior via email, phone, or fax. Please keep your comments to him professional and businesslike. Let's avoid getting down in the gutter as wingnuts typically do. His contact information, which is public record on his medical website, can be found here.

Additionally, Dr. McKalip is affiliated with Bayfront Medical Center and St. Anthony's Hospital in the St. Petersburg area. Contact information for Bayfront is here and St. Anthony's is here.

Also, please take a moment to contact the American Medical Association and ask them in a businesslike and professional way, to publicly issue a statment that they reject and condemn the racist views of this Association delegate. Email and phone contact information for the AMA can be found here.

UPDATE

A commenter suggested that perhaps the filing of complaint with the Florida Physician Licensing authority would be appropriate. The contact info related to filing a complaint can be found at this Florida Department of Health link here.

UPDATE

Dr. McKalip is also on the faculty of the University of South Florida. Contact information for USF is here.

Additional USF contact information is below:

University of South Florida

Office of the President

4202 E. Fowler Avenue, ADM 241

Tampa, Florida 33620 Cynthia S. Visot, Chief of Staff

cvisot@trustees.usf.edu Lesley Miller, Director, Community Relations

ljmiller@admin.usf.edu

UPDATE

The American Medical Association has released the following related to Dr. McKalip's racist email:

The AMA became aware of this situation earlier today and released the following statement: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 23, 2009 Statement attributable to: American Medical Association "Delegates to the American Medical Association are selected through

their individual state and specialty societies, and their individual

views and actions do not, in any way, represent the official view of the

AMA. We condemn any actions or comments that are racist, discriminatory

or unprofessional."

# # # Roger Brown, PhD

Director, Office of House of Delegates Affairs

American Medical Association

515 North State Street

Chicago, IL 60654 P: (312) 464-4344

F: (312) 464-4505

roger.brown@ama-assn.org

UPDATE

Additional contacts-Bayfront and St. Anthonys CEOs, USF Medical School Administrators: