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Dr. Hal Scherz Receives Prestigious Heritage Foundation Award
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Docs 4 Patient Care Founder and President Dr. Hal Scherz received the prestigious Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship from the Heritage Foundation at a luncheon earlier today.
"Noted physician and health care advocate Hal C. Scherz of Atlanta today was awarded The Heritage Foundation’s 2011 Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship.
"Dr. Scherz, managing partner of Georgia Pediatric Urology, in 2009 founded Docs 4 Patient Care, a voluntary association of medical practitioners. The group’s mission: to champion sensible health care reform while promoting quality of care and affordable access for all.
"'A modern-day Paul Revere, Hal Scherz set out to warn his profession and his fellow citizens of the federal government's bureaucratic destruction of the American health care system through the takeover that came to be known as Obamacare,' said Matthew Spalding, vice president of American studies at The Heritage Foundation...."
Read the full press release from the Heritage Foundation here, and read Dr. Scherz's acceptance remarks here.
Congratulations Dr. Scherz!
Watch video of Dr. Scherz's remarks below. (Dr. Scherz is presented the award near the 31:30 mark and his comments begin at the 32:15 mark).
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