Assessing Physician Legislators

Grady, Allison

doi:10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.12.msoc5-0512

AMA Journal of Ethics

2005

DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.12.msoc5-0512

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Assessing Physician Legislators

Allison Grady¹

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The Physician as Healer, Citizen, and Soldier

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2007

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Physicians have long been acknowledged, recognized, and sought after not only for their skills and knowledge as healers, but also for their contribution as involved citizens and advocates for social justice, order, and the public good. In many societies, physicians hold esteemed leadership roles and political offices. Examples from abroad include numerous physician leaders in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as the former Prime Minister of Norway, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, who served in that capacity for over a decade and thereafter became the World Health Organization's director-general. In the United States, where one of the signatories to the Declaration of Independence was physician, soldier and statesman Benjamin Rush, relatively few physicians are seen in the most prominent levels of government or political leadership today. Although there were 17 physicians in the 109th Congress, one can question their effectiveness, as most downplayed their medical backgrounds [1]. Two prominent exceptions are Howard Dean, MD, former governor of Vermont and current chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and William Frist, MD, the former Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee.

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