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...views on such potentially explosive issues as abortion and fetal-tissue research are not yet known. (The Administration says his views are similar to the President's.) On the other hand, Surgeons General often face unexpected crises--and respond in unexpected ways. Ronald Reagan chose pediatric surgeon C. Everett Koop in 1981 for his solid pro-life credentials. But when AIDS emerged in the '80s, Koop surprised the skeptics by being the one Reagan official to respond to the crisis with aggressive measures...
Such stitch-in-time wisdom should be obvious to cash-strapped governments trying to do more with less, but at the moment there's no single national figure teaching the preparedness lesson. In the 1980s, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop helped calm the early hysteria over AIDS, telling the well how to stay that way and reminding them that in the meantime there was no reason to fear the sick. Thompson and Ridge, national doctors without a medical degree between them, have been no match for that kind of performance. Even Satcher has not achieved the same iconic status. During...
...most important step toward improving things--apart from simply finding a Koop-like figure and seeing to it that that person is the only one who takes the mike during emergencies--is upgrading the public-health system's surveillance powers. The ability to spot new disease outbreaks, diagnose them properly and get word out on the medical wires is central to managing crises like anthrax as well as more routine problems like Lyme disease, tuberculosis and the flu. Emergency rooms often perform this function in an ad hoc way; the emergence of West Nile virus in New York City...
...that's what Thompson's job has become, and the confusing and sometimes conflicting information coming out of Washington has caused some who remember the avuncular and authoritative former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop to wince. "There has been a breakdown in the public-diplomacy aspect of [the bioterrorism] issue," says Elisa Harris, a veteran of the Clinton Administration's National Security Council. "What's needed is a constant, calming presence...
...Here we enter upon advanced beard studies - the consideration of differentiated beard styles. Bork's neat, even prissy clip bespeaks something of a law-and-order personality deriving from the Ice People, even as it gestures a little confusingly in an Amish direction - not the full rectitudinous C. Everett Koop model, but a thinner version thereof...