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Tea Party Medicine: Jane Orient is Leading the Fight Against Health-Care Reform

By Mari Herreras

Tucson Weekly | January 6, 2010

Jane Orient is a Tucson doctor who happens to be the executive director of a national organization that's getting a lot of attention lately, thanks to the Tea Party movement and the debate over health-care reform. She has been executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons since 1989.

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