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10-6-2009 4:34 AM
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merrie says:
....... sent out an email on September 18, which was received by Beverly B. Nuckols, MD, of Texas, who blogged:

The only people who kept bringing up “what physicians can be doing now to ensure that Congress pushes forward to create meaningful health reform” were the same guys who made sure that the rest of us were on “listen-in” mode only.Still no mention about the close connections with Senator Max Baucus, the Obama election and transition teams, the Center for American Progress and John Podesta, or (specifically) Dr. Murthy’s own role on the transition team.

Dr. Murthy, an internal medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, is also the co-founder and president of Doctors for America.

Dr. Nuckols did some serious sleuthing and discovered:

The leadership at Doctors for America is made up of nearly the same roster of men and women who, in 2008, were the leadership of “Doctors for Obama” in 2008.
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10-6-2009 4:40 AM
merrie
. . Common names are Vivek Murthy, MD MBA, Mandy Krauthamer, MD MPH, Nikhil Wagle, MD, Alex Blum, MD, and Jay Bhatt, DO MPH.


Also, not only did Dr. Nuckols discover that the Center for American Progress funds the group, as indicated in Ben Smith’s article (Politico), but also that Dr. Murthy’s bio is posted on CAP’s website.

And that May 4 conference call? Well, here’s what Project Vote had to say: “Center for American Progress Media Conference Call With Senator Max Baucus (D-MT); John Podesta, President And CEO, Center for American Progress Action Fund; Dr. Vivek Murthy, M.D., President and Co-Founder, Doctors for America.”

Yes. There’s more. It seems that Dr. Vivek H. Murthy is a Sor...
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