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Published on: 10/20/2008
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Wally Ghurabi, MD * Richard Haskell, MD * Steven Ross, MD * Richard Frankenstein, MD * John Patrick Johnson, MD
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Richard Frankenstein, MD
OCMA member since 1981
Dr. Frankenstein, California Medical Association president-elect, was selected to communicate the CMA's interests on the informal advisory committee that state Sen.
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During the initial meetings, Dr. Frankenstein says his message was direct.
"I've made it clear that there are lots of reform ideas being talked about in Sacramento that we don't like," he says.
So far, Dr. Frankenstein has advocated only "CMA's position that we are interested in things that will help people to see doctors, as opposed to impeding people from seeing their doctors," he says.
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The health advisory group also includes a community doctor, an attorney, a former CalOptima medical director, a hospital CEO and a health economics professor from UC Irvine, Dr. Frankenstein says.