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Author: Marion Mass, MD

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Marion Mass, MD

I am a mother, a pediatrician, a community volunteer, a writer, and an advocate to insure a high-quality, sustainable healthcare system in America that will attract bright hardworking minds in the future.

I co-founded Practicing Physicians of America https://practicingphysician.org/ with cardiologist Westby Fisher (of MOC reform fame) in 2016. We have a fantastic diverse board, including Child Psychiatrist Brian Jamal Dixon, Pediatrician Niran Al Agba, and Breast surgeon Judith Thompson. I and PPA are true grassroots! I started this movement by expressing myself via speaking, writing, and advocating at state and national levels. I have no conflicts of interest and have not ever taken a speaking fee. As a member of The Pennsylvania Medical Society, I believe that grassroots collaborating with state societies and patient advocacy organizations is the path forward. I’m a real person and I make very real faux pas… including getting so intent on work that I end up running errands in public in my bathrobe (most of my writing happens in my robe!).

To learn more about Dr. Marion Mass connect with her on LinkedIn (Marion (Siegfried) Mass, M.D.), follow her on Instagram (mrnmass) and X (formerly Twitter) mass_marion, subscribe to her YouTube channel (marionmass3710), and visit her website at https://practicingphysician.org.

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One critic of the Bucks County Courier Times Guest Opinion on Feb. 18, “American health care’s staggering administrative overhead,” correctly pointed out that... Read more.

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When a group called Citizen Health recently crunched the government’s numbers for 2018 to find out where the money was going in American health care, the result... Read more.

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