Former Assistant Surgeon General Douglas Kamerow is a family doctor and specialist in preventive medicine. He works as a chief scientist in health services research and policy at the non-partisan research institute RTI International and as a Professor of Clinical Family Medicine at Georgetown University, both in Washington, DC. Dr. Kamerow is also an associate editor of the global medical journal BMJ, for which he writes a regular column on health policy, and he is a frequent health commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered.

Dr. Kamerow’s new book of essays about health and health care is Dissecting American Health Care, and his website is http://www.douglaskamerow.com.

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