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Blitzing for Family Medicine
The Academy’s fight for family medicine is nothing if not a long game. Sometimes, though, the playbook calls for the old ghost blitz.
That was the maneuver last week when the AAFP’s president, Board chair and Board members conducted a high-powered, minutely scheduled day of lobbying pandemic-style virtually.
How’d it go?
“Great day, great day,” Academy President Ada Stewart, M.D., of Columbia, S.C., said on the video call that participants shared afterward to debrief.
It was a full day, certainly. Stewart’s agenda had included sit-downs with staff from her state’s senators, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, and Rep. Joe Wilson, also R-S.C.; additionally, she joined AAFP colleagues for meetings with staff for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. ....

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