Dr. John S. O'Shea started out down a very typical surgical career. He trained in New Jersey and New York in the 80s and started his career in academic hepatobiliary surgery. After several years in the trenches, he really didn't like what he was seeing. He wanted to know why policy was changing so much. So he took some classes. Then he wrote a few op-eds. Before he knew it, he was at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Then the Heritage Foundation. Then a senior staffer for the House Commerce committee. He has been in the room where it happens. He has seen the sausage get made and even made some of it himself! 

 

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