Robert B. Doherty is senior vice president of governmental affairs and public policy for the American College of Physicians, the largest physician specialty society and second largest medical organization in the United States representing 143,000 internal medicine physicians and medical student members. Doherty has more than 37 years of health policy experience, having started with the American Society of Internal Medicine in 1979. He writes “The ACP Advocate Blog with Bob Doherty.”