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"The amount of politics in medicine is always amazing to me. It’s about turf. It's about ego. It’s about money."

-- H. Lee Moffitt

A few moments with H. Lee Moffitt, attorney, former speaker of the Florida House and namesake of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa; age 72:

“The amount of politics in medicine is always amazing to me. It’s about turf. It's about ego. It’s about money,” says the namesake of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa. “It's really sad that there is so much infighting. In fact, there is more infighting in the politics of medicine than there is in Tallahassee.” 

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