What you’ve done is constructed an argument where no matter what position the AMA takes, they are the bad guys.
> salaries depended on my lobbying taking its time to produce as little of a result as possible
This doesn’t make sense. How would the AMA board communicate this to their voting members when all of their communications say that they doing all they can to increase resident funding.
How about the first board to vote to change their position 30 years ago? How would the voting members know that they were planning on slow walking their new position?
Do you think they have a secret doctor only communication channel where they tell them “don’t worry guys we’re not trying that hard”. Because without that if your premise is correct all of the members would have voted them out ASAP.
Also how is the AMA (which only represents about 15% of doctors btw) preventing hospitals from effectively lobbying for an increase? They have a huge financial interest in more resident funding.