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...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's Joycelyn Elders got into hot water for advocating the teaching of masturbation, while George W. Bush's Richard H. Carmona admitted to getting a gag order from the White House on anything that didn't match the Administration's politics. Gupta, who enters politics with an already robust fan base, will...
...Surgeon General, Gupta would oversee the 6,000-member commissioned corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. Traditionally, the office, which was established in 1871, has served as a soapbox for promoting healthy living goals: C. Everett Koop launched an antismoking campaign in the 1980s; Joycelyn Elders, under President Clinton, pushed for stronger sex education in schools (she was later forced to resign, following the program's controversy); and Richard Carmona focused on controlling drug abuse under President George W. Bush. With Gupta, that soapbox has the potential to become a podium for convincing the American public as well...
...JOYCELYN ELDERS, former U.S. Surgeon General, calling for comprehensive sex education in schools and criticizing a Bush Administration plan to spend $50 million on abstinence-only instruction...
...just don't like to talk about sex." JOYCELYN ELDERS, former U.S. Surgeon General, calling for better sex education in schools and criticizing a Bush Administration plan to spend $50 million on abstinence-only instruction...
This controversy came just three years after the dismissal of Joycelyn M. Elders from the surgeon general post. Elders was removed because of a comment she made about masturbation and her admission that she would be willing to consider the decriminalization of marijuana...