Check the facts before you make up your mind on health care – doctor’s orders.

Or at least those are the orders of the doctors who visited the College Republicans Wednesday.

Two practicing urologists came to the organization’s meeting in the Miller Learning Center to present their reasons for why Americans should be skeptical of health care reform efforts.

“We’re here to tell you that the patients don’t want it, and the doctors don’t want it,” Dr. David Lowther said. “What system do you want when you turn 65? Do you want to go to the Post Office for medical care?”

Lowther and Dr. Brian Hill said they knew each other through shared patients, and decided to pool their reform education efforts after attending several town hall meetings held by members of Congress.

“First [Congress said] it was the uninsured problem, then it was the doctors that chopped off feet for 50 grand, then it was the insurance companies that make too much money,” Lowther said. “If we chased our tails like this in medicine, we wouldn’t cure anything.”

The urologists showed a Gallup Poll to explain why they felt it was important to speak up. The poll asked members of the public who they would like to see writing the health care bill if they could choose.

“Doctors win out two-to-one over Congress,” Lowther said.

Then, as he pointed to the smallest percentages represented by the graph: “And what I found very funny down here is that Democrats barely beat out the pharmaceutical companies.”

The poll was on one of dozens of data-packed PowerPoint slides, which make up the two doctors’ traveling presentation. Each slide had charts, graphs and examples of ideas they said must be brought into the health care reform debate.

“We want to make [the reforms] an evidence-based decision like we have to do every day in the clinic,” Lowther said.

Hill noted each slide was accompanied by sources, notations and URLs to maintain a fact-based approach.

“If you let emotions get in the way, you’re going to lose,” Hill said. “Fortunately, facts are going to win out, true numbers are going to win out. We want you to look at the data and draw your own opinion.”

To address medical malpractice suits, the doctors showed a Robert Wood Johnson foundation chart that said doctor tribunals would curb malpractice costs to the tune of $210 billion a year.

Citing the amount of frivolous lawsuits as the reason for costs running off the charts, they said these tribunals would not only save money, but be far more fair.

“There are bad doctors out there, so a bad way to [curb costs] would be to cap malpractice suits,” Lowther said. “So if I do something to injure one of my cancer patients, I want to know that I have [a panel of] six to 12 doctors that do what I do everyday look at the case.”

The doctors closed with a request that students learn more on their own.

“You have to use the common sense test,” Hill said. “If we are going to bring 47 million people into the system without increasing the number of doctors out there, how is that not going to give you less access? So look at the data, look at the research and draw your own opinion.”