Are you a politician? The oral and maxillofacial surgeon leader. Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

摘要

Did that feel like a pejorative question? Admittedly, even the word "politics" evokes squeamish hilarity in the average American today. Whether it be the scandals of personal impropriety, feeding at the public trough, cash in the freezer, or simply pandering with unctuous insincerity to special interests, direct participation in the political process is, on superficial examination, completely alien to the precise, orderly practice of surgery that we know. Only late night talk show viewers seem to enjoy the posturing, the positioning and, most of all, the pathetic stumbling of our messy political process.