In the face of cost-cutting healthcare reform, and realizing that doctors were fighting the forces of big business, medical societies started becoming much more aggressive about knocking on politicians’ doors. “The societies recognized that the hospitals and pharma were spending a lot on the Hill and we wanted to be the person the congressman turns to when they have a question about a bill,” said Dr. Alexandra Page, an orthopedist in San Diego, who is chair of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Health Care Systems Committee.
