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The FMA, in partnership with county medical society physician advocates, stopped a slew of anti-medicine bills from passing in the state Legislature and made vast improvements to many others before the 2019 Legislative Ses- sion ended. Without strong physician advocacy led by the FMA and supported by our Government Affairs Com- mittee, Florida physicians and patients would have been severely affected. The sheer number of bills filed that were hostile to medicine was the largest in at least a quarter century.
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