2024 NCMS Candidate Series Featuring Dr. Greg Murphy
The 2024 North Carolina Medical Society Candidate Series has an exclusive interview featuring Dr. Greg Murphy, who is running for reelection to the third Congressional District of North Carolina.
In this episode, Dr. Murphy talks about his career as a physician in Greenville and his plans to improve access to quality healthcare across the state. He also discusses the importance of a strong healthcare system for veterans and the elderly, the fate of Medicare in the state, and Prior Authorization.
All candidates who are members of NCMS and are running for either state or federal office have been extended invitations to articulate their perspectives on these crucial subjects. Stay tuned for forthcoming interviews with other candidates leading up to the November election.
It is disheartening that you did not follow up Dr. Murphy’s remark about “getting the best people” into our med schools” with a question about his current legislation aimed at eliminating DEI in med schools. In ENC we serve a poor, minoritized population. The med school that he is affiliated with was created to educate people who live here to stay here and serve this rural community.
It is also interesting that you did not follow up on his record on women’s health, which is directly in opposition to that of ACOG and his female colleagues who practice OB/Gyn. He has consistently opposed access to reproductive care, including contraception, prenatal care, and care for women/children. His rhetoric around women’s health- specifically abortion and contraception- is paternalistic, scientifically inaccurate, would rob his female constituents of their ability to control their own bodies.
He consistently pushed an anti-science agenda during covid, creating questions about the vaccine and the use of masks/PPE. This put patients and his colleagues at risk and politicized healthcare. The public’s negative attitude and violence that targeted HCW’s have occurred directly related to this type of propaganda and disinformation. The NCMS should have directly addressed Dr. Murphy’s choice to politicize healthcare to advance his political care and addressed the harm that this approach has done to patients and his colleagues in healthcare.
Dr. Ferguson, thank you for articulating the concerns many of us have about Dr. Murphy. I am a Third Congressional District constituent and am frequently appalled by the emails he sends to us. I am frustrated that many of us do not have representation in the House and that a doctor spreads misinformation and misleads his constituents.