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Published: Thursday, May 21, 2026

Article will play after ad... Playing in :00 A A A US Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced the Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act, bipartisan legislation that would produce high quality data on where general surgeons are in short supply in Hawai‘i around the country.

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