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On Responsibility and Life in a Looming Shadow with my Dad: Elliott Fisher MD, MPH
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On Responsibility and Life in a Looming Shadow with my Dad: Elliott Fisher MD, MPH

Today, I am delighted to share my wonderful father with you all in part 1 of this two-part series.
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Today, I am delighted to share my wonderful father with you all.  To me, my father is exactly that — my dad. He is the man who taught me to love and persevere in the great outdoors no matter the weather and endowed me with a passion for music as well as a deep respect for its power in healing and building community. He is also the best coffee cake baker, French braider, and handyman I know. And above all, he is the role model I look to when ‘I think of kind curiosity and how to use it as I move through the world. 

In addition to being all of those incredible things, professionally, he is known as a renowned health policy researcher and fierce advocate for improving the health care system. Widely celebrated for his work on the Affordable Care Act, he continues to work to this day as a tenured faculty at Dartmouth.

Today, in the first of a two-part series, we will be talking about how my dad grew into the person he is today. We will also talk about his lived experience with his mother, my…

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