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Surgeon, rodeo doctor and, now, senator
John A. Barrasso, M.D., HS ’83, the new Republican U.S. senator from Wyoming, recalls that when he was a resident at Yale from 1978 to 1983, his professors stressed the importance of having a plan before going into surgery. “They would tell us that if you don’t have a plan to begin with on how to solve the problem, you’ll have a much tougher time halfway though the operation,” he said.
This advice has served Barrasso well both as an orthopaedic surgeon and as a politician and civic activist. Early in his career, Barrasso’s plan was to provide health care for as many people as possible inside and outside the operating room. That plan culminated on June 25, when he was appointed by Gov. David Freudenthal to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the late Craig Thomas. “Affordable and available health care is a big issue in Wyoming,” he said. “It’s a rural state, and people are spread out. I want to help find ways to get health care to them.”
As a medical student at Georgetown University, Barrasso was already thinking about ways to broaden h
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John Barrasso
American physician and politician (born 1952)
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