Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
Garry Trudeau
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- When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.