— Bio —
Michael L. Douglas, MD, MBA is the editor and proprietor of Doctor Pundit, one of the blogosphere's leading physician blogs and healthcare policy blogs. He is a geriatrician and board-certified family physician who serves as the clinical director of long term care services at the Saint Peter (MN) Regional Treatment Center, the state's inpatient forensic psychiatric facility. Dr. Douglas is also a member of the University of Southern California/Annenberg School for Communication community of healthcare journalists and medical/healthcare policy bloggers at Reporting On Health (reportingonhealth.com). He has served on various local and national healthcare and policy advisory boards within the past five years and currently advocates for greater awareness of healthcare policy issues for the benefit of patients-as-healthcare-consumers in the the age of 21st century healthcare delivery.