David Loxterkamp, MD, has been a family practice physician in Belfast, Maine, for more than 30 years. He is a noted expert on family practice and speaks widely on medical policy and the crisis in primary care delivery. He is the author of A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor (University Press of New England, 1997).
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