Nominees for the job of surgeon-general, for example, are almost bound to get mugged by arguments over abortion.
You wouldn't choose Mr Wolfowitz to be surgeon-general, a position for a doctor.
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One of Canyon Ranch's answers to this problem has been to hire Richard Carmona, who was America's surgeon-general until last summer.
In Arizona the Democrats are fielding a strong candidate in Richard Carmona, a decorated veteran, Latino and former surgeon-general under George W. Bush.
Perhaps, in the end, a higher price will be a far more effective warning sticker than anything America's surgeon-general could ever dream up.
This worked well until 1964, when a devastating report from the surgeon-general's advisory committee in effect ended medical uncertainty about the harmfulness of smoking.
But on January 6th Mr Obama was back in the firing-line, accused of making another dubiously qualified appointment in the shape of Sanjay Gupta, a TV presenter and doctor, to be surgeon-general.
Anti-smokers are undoubtedly right to say that big tobacco failed to come clean about the harmful effects of smoking (though why people should choose to listen to the industry's advertisements rather than the surgeon-general's health warnings is not clear).
Because Congress clearly has nothing more important to focus on at the moment, Rep. Joe Baca (D) has just introduced a bill called the Video Game Health Labeling Act, which would require all violent video games to carry a Surgeon General-type explicit warning label on them.
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Toward the end of his four-year stint as surgeon general, in an informal poll that I conducted, only five of 60 experts in public health and public policy could identify the current surgeon general, even when offered a multiple-choice format.
Everett Koop, who served during the Reagan administration, is unquestionably the best-known Surgeon General in modern times.
He was by far the best-known surgeon general and for decades afterward was still a recognized personality.
Koop was by far the best-known surgeon general, and decades after he left the job he was still a recognized personality.
It begins with the doctors and nurses who stayed behind to care for the sick and the injured without equipment, without electricity -- like our nation's Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin -- (applause) -- who mortgaged her house, maxed out on her credit cards so she could reopen her clinic and help care for victims of the storm.
He has also held other roles with the cancer society, co-chaired the Surgeon General's Task Force on Cancer Health Disparities and filled a variety of capacities at the National Cancer Institute.
Koop wielded the previously low-profile post of surgeon general as a bully pulpit for seven years during the Ronald Reagan and George H.
The surgeon who performed the 45-minute procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Bertram Zarins, said Kerry, the all-but-crowned Democratic presidential nominee, suffered no complications.
The Surgeon General also warned in a 700-page report released last December that smoking cigarettes causes cancer and cardiovascular disease.
On tobacco, McCain would again have public opinion behind him, but he also had to please an array of constituencies: Democrats, Republicans, the White House, the industry, plaintiffs' lawyers and hard-line public health groups represented by former Surgeon General C.
New tobacco companies, which by definition could not have participated in the decades-long scheme to convince smokers that the Surgeon General and their own doctors were lying to them, must post the equivalent of a bond to the states just to get into the business.
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Everett Koop, who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America's attention on the then-emerging disease known as AIDS and by railing against smoking, has died in New Hampshire at age 96.
Before becoming Surgeon General, I served on the Sullivan Commission, a blue-ribbon panel that looked for ways to diversify the health care workforce.
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The risk of waking from a general anaesthetic while under the surgeon's knife is extremely small - about one in 15, 000 - research reveals.
Melody introduced them, but let me take time to also thank Secretaries Duncan and Salazar, OBM Director Peter Orszag, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan and Nancy-Ann DeParle.
Dianne Feinstein, D-California, over his choice of Leon Panetta to head the CIA, and from Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, over his reported pick of CNN chief medical correspondent and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta as surgeon general.
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