Special Election, House 24 Ocala, Florida, Tampa's City Election, and More

The Paul Truesdell Podcast

Special Election, House 24 Florida, Tampa's City Election, and More
Candidate 1 Bio - Candidate 2 Bio - Candidate 3 Bio & 3A Say What Background - Candidate 4 Bio - Candidate 5 - Bio - Special Election Harding Resigns - Arrested - Good Old Boy Contributions and $75,000 Mystery Money - Complaining Over Doing - Pain & Gain - IPO That's Really an MLM - MLM Stats - State Representative & Target Rich Pool - Avoid Losing Money to MLM - Trump Jr. Calls on Montanans to Destroy the Chinese Spy Balloon Themselves - Florida Man - A Real Mayor - A Real Businessman Running for City Council - McDonald’s Buys Out Storied Franchisee Caspers Company - City of Tampa Election - District 24 Election - As he runs for Congress he recounts battle with alcoholism, and his recovery - The Insider and Results - Harry Truman And The Pendergast Political Machine - Florida Term Limits But One Candidate Skirts The Intent - Elected and Connected, Demand Better - Steps to Become a Doctor - Self-Publishing for Dummies - Legislature’s lone physician questions Md. official over delayed alerts about possibly spoiled vaccines - We Are Marshall - Bamboozle - Small Town Security - Stonehead Lemming Politician Who Never Go Away - Don't Vote for My Brother - Interesting - See Prior - MLM Founder Dies - Millionaire JR Ridinger’s yacht sinks gas tanker in Bahamas boat accident - - $100+ Billion Stolen - The Great Pandemic Swindle: Feds Botched Review of Billions in Suspect PPP Loans - 18 ex-NBA players charged in $4M health care fraud scheme - Former NFL Player to Prison - Joshua Edwards and Evan Edwards - Kandiss Taylor is a Very Odd Christian Bird - More...

The majority of the 28 federal physician legislators are Doctor of Medicine graduates (96%), Republican (86%), represent southern states (71%), were in private practice before serving as legislators (78.5%), and have not previously held elected positions as legislators (57%). Approximately 15% of the bills that they sponsor are related to health policy. Obstetrics/Gynecology, Surgery, and Family Medicine are the most common specialties. On average, it takes 25 years from medical school graduation to election to their federal legislative position. Approximately half represent states, or districts within states, in which they attended medical school or completed residency.

Conclusions: To engage in meaningful healthcare policy advocacy, professional organizations must support and encourage leadership training for physicians, increase the geographic and professional diversity of physician legislators, prioritize the election of physicians from both political parties, and inculcate deep and lasting professional relationships to physicians in Congress.