Three Jackson Doctors Name Best in America

Fourteen Tennessee physicians affiliated with the Sarah Cannon Research Institute were selected as Best Doctors in America for 2009-2010 in a vote by fellow physicians.

Compiled by Boston-based Best Doctors Inc., the Best Doctors in America database <http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20091122/BUSINESS/911220309/Spotlights#> is the result of the largest continuous peer-to-peer survey of the medical profession. Only doctors recognized to be in the top 3 to 5 percent of their specialty earn the honor of being named one of the best doctors in America.

More than 45,000 physicians in the United States participated in the anonymous and confidential polling process. Doctors do not pay to be included in the database, nor are they paid to participate in the survey.

Nine physicians from the institute's non-oncology strategic sites were named best doctors, including three from Jackson. The Jackson doctors honored are Alan DeJarnatt, allergy and immunology, Allergy and Asthma Care; Edwin Carlton Hays Jr., internal medicine, The Jackson Clinic; and W. Keith Williams, obstetrics and gynecology, The Jackson Clinic.