Emergency physician running for Senate dies in plane crash
October 14, 2014|Emergency Medicine
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Dr. Doug Butzier, an emergency physician running in Iowa as a Libertarian candidate for the U.S. Senate, was killed in a plane crash on October 13.
Dr. Butzier was flying the single-engine plane, according to a report in the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald. Dr. Butzier was president of Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque's medical staff and served on the hospital's board of trustees at the time of his death, according to the report.