From operating room to the Gold Dome: How Georgia’s medical lawmakers shape policy

The typical path to becoming a politician includes law school, public policy or government work – not necessarily medical training.

But doctors, nurses, pharmacists and even a dentist or two make up the ranks of legislators in the Georgia General Assembly. They are a vocal and highly educated minority of more than a dozen medicos in a sea of lawyers and business people.

Their frontline experience guides how they vote and their championing of bills to improve Georgia health.