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Emory professor explains health care shortcomings

By Johnny Edwards
July 30, 2012

Emory University professor and book author Otis Brawley will explain some unfortunate facts about how America's health care system works in a presentation Saturday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library in Atlanta. It starts at 2 p.m. at 409 John Wesley Dobbs Ave.

Brawley authored the book "How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America." He is a professor of Hematology, Oncology, Medicine and Epidemiology at Emory and is chief medical and scientific officer for the American Cancer Society. Information: 404-730-1185.

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