New York Times: “A heightened political awareness, and a healthy self-regard that they could do a better job, are drawing a surprisingly large number to the power of elective office… With a few exceptions, these physician legislators and candidates — there are three dozen of them — are much alike: deeply conservative, mostly male, and practicing in the specialty fields in which costs and pay have soared in recent years.”
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