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is about,” he said.
Another pastime of the couple, also about who has the most control, is political advocacy, which was thrust upon Dr. Martin rather
unexpectedly as he was practicing. “I’m the accidental advocate.
CMS wanted to cut the reimbursement for the technical part of
what the lab does, and we wouldn’t have been able to function. It
just so happened that the pathology labs and societies were able to
make a unified front to CMS and they backed off. It was successful
advocacy and that just opened up more doors.”
Today, both Dr. Martin and Dr. Davis are active with the GLMS
Policy and Advocacy Team and Dr. Davis chaired the team for several years. Dr. Martin also attends advocacy events for the College
of American Pathologists.
Despite being an advocate by accident, Dr. Martin was afforded a
unique opportunity to speak for physicians as he and his wife shared
a flight with Senator Mitch McConnell prior to the retraction of the
Sustainable Growth Rate by Congress.
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“There were four or five physicians on that flight. So for the next
50 minutes, I proceeded to talk to Sen. McConnell about SGR and
why it had to go, and he had to sit and listen to me,” laughed Dr.
Martin. “I was so thankful to be involved in advocacy because I was
able to deliver a barrage of information. Then SGR was gone and I
thought ‘I have had something to do with it!’”
When he finds time, Dr. Martin still loves the science fiction that
sparked his imagination so many years ago, reading favorties from
Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven and Neil Gaiman. Still, after 30 years
of practice, he finds much to love about his career in pathology. “I
love medicine,” Dr. Martin said. “It’s been one of the most satisfying
things I’ve ever done. I’d absolutely do it again.”
“Al is a true believer and practitioner of kindne