Keeping the Faith at the City’s Only Hospital East of the Anacostia River

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Keeping the Faith at the City’s Only Hospital East of the Anacostia River

The United Medical Center on Nov. 9 installed Dr. William J. Strudwick, an emergency medicine physician with more than three decades of experience, as chief medical officer at the District’s only hospital east of the Anacostia River.

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