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	<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 17pt; mso-ansi-language: en">ABPS and AAPS </span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17pt; mso-ansi-language: en"><font color="#000000">C<span style="color: black">elebrate National Doctor&rsquo;s Day 2012<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></b></p>
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	<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; color: black; mso-ansi-language: en"><font size="3">Tampa, FL -</font></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 17pt; mso-ansi-language: en"> </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; color: black; mso-ansi-language: en"><font size="3">March 30, 2012 marks the 21st anniversary of National Doctor&rsquo;s Day and will be celebrated by the </font><a href="http://www.abpsus.org/" title="ABPS"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">American Board of Physician Specialties</font></a><font size="3"> (ABPS) and its governing organization, the American Association of Physician Specialists (AAPS). ABPS and AAPS invite patients to thank their physicians for the care and compassion they provide every day.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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	<font size="3"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; color: black; mso-ansi-language: en">Although the first observance of Doctor&rsquo;s Day was in 1933, it was proclaimed a national day of celebration beginning in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush. &ldquo;Twenty-one years later, whether at the bedside, in surgery, treating emergency or urgent care patients, delivering babies, reading x-rays or lab tests, board</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: en"><font color="#000000"> </font><span style="color: black">certified physicians are still delivering compassionate care to our communities,&rdquo; said Louis W. Sullivan, MD, in a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10DD1CLkP7Q&amp;context=C319f65eADOEgsToPDskIL3c5cWEccdtMQKVLdQ1gW" title="Doctor's Day video"><font color="#0000ff">special video</font></a> commemorating the day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p>
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	<font size="3"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; color: black; mso-ansi-language: en">Dr. Sullivan is former US Secretary of Health &amp; Human Services (1989-1993) and one of the founders of the prestigious Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: en"><font color="#000000"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span>Currently, he is a<span style="color: black"> Public Member of the AAPS Board of Directors and Chairman of the Board of the National Health Museum in Atlanta. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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	<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; color: black; mso-ansi-language: en"><font size="3">Doctor&rsquo;s Day was first observed on March 30, 1933 in Barrow County, Georgia on the 91st anniversary of the first administration of anesthesia by Dr. Crawford W. Long in 1842.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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	<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; color: black; mso-ansi-language: en"><a href="http://www.abpsus.org/" title="American Board of Physician Specialties"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">ABPS</font></a><font size="3"> certifies qualified allopathic and osteopathic physicians in 17 different medical specialties. ABPS board certification demonstrates the physician&rsquo;s core body of knowledge and commitment to a specific specialty.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>