[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13434]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                  IN RECOGNITION OF WILLIAM N. GUERTIN

 Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I am pleased today to commend 
Mr. William N. Guertin for his election as President of the American 
Association of Medical Society Executives and for his 30 years of 
service to the medical doctors of Alameda-Contra Costa counties and his 
many achievements.
  Mr. Guertin has been a member of the Alameda-Contra Costa Medical 
Association, ACCMA, since 1971, and has held two executive offices, 
Assistant Executive Director and Executive Director. The ACCMA serves 
over 3,100 doctors and is the second largest medical association in 
California.
  Mr. Guertin's leadership supported many California doctors' efforts 
to help, cure, and care for people in need of support and medical help. 
He has worked to create programs that promote public health, quality 
access to care, and professional standards in California. Mr. Guertin 
has worked to protect physicians from impositions that would interfere 
with their ability to interact successfully with their patients. Mr. 
Guertin created the first doctor-owned professional liability insurance 
carrier in California, at a time when doctors were not able to obtain 
the insurance necessary to practice quality medicine.
  The practice of medicine has long been a profession of people who 
devote their time and effort to helping others. Mr. Guertin has worked 
tirelessly for the past 30 years to facilitate the work of physicians 
and to enhance the quality of care for the people of Alameda-Contra 
Costa counties.
  For these reasons, I congratulate Mr. Guertin on his new position as 
President of the American Association of Medical Society Executives. I 
am confident that Mr. Guertin will succeed in his new position and work 
to augment the lives of patients and physicians throughout the 
Nation.

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