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...many ways, the selection of Dr. Sanjay Gupta as President-elect Barack Obama's pick for surgeon general makes perfect sense. As a television personality, he has ample experience communicating with Americans about health issues in a necessarily simple way - and that is really the bulk of the job (though the Washington Post reports that Gupta has been offered a concurrent position in the new White House Office of Health Reform), though most surgeons general have been largely invisible since the days of Ronald Reagan's C. Everett Koop, who spoke out often against the dangers of smoking. Bill Clinton...
...addition to his TIME magazine column, is best known for his work on the air - most notably on CNN, where he often appears on American Morning and has his own half-hour weekend medical show, House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta...
...unaware of any public-health experience or qualifications he has to be the leader of the nation's public-health service." - Gerard M. Farrell, executive director of the Commissioned Officers Association of the Public Health Service (the body headed by the surgeon general), on Gupta's lack of credentials, Washington Post...
...Does it compromise my journalistic objectivity to say that Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a dick?" - Rachel Sklar, Huffington Post media columnist, on Gupta, after an incident in which Gupta (incorrectly, according to Sklar) accused Michael Moore of including misinformation in his health-care documentary Sicko, Huffington Post, July...
...Sanjay Gupta's TIME column, Fit Nation...