Word: satcher
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Dole, who offered the Class Day address to graduates of the Kennedy School of Government last June, returns to Boston June 9 for HBS Class Day ceremonies U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher will address the Harvard Medical School (HMS) the following...
...Satcher, who is the 16th Surgeon General, isalso the assistant secretary of health and hasserved in these positions since February 1998. Theassistant secretary for health advises the healthand human services secretary's senior adviser onpublic health issues. Satcher was president ofMeharry Medical College from 1982 until 1993. From1993 to 1997, he was the director of the Centerfor Disease Control and Prevention
...with identical symptoms. After subjecting the data to statistical tests to assure its reliability, the study's authors concluded that the disparity in what are literally life-and-death decisions about medical care was most likely due to unconscious biases about gender and race. As U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, who happens to be an African American, told the Washington Post, "Blacks are 40% more likely [than whites] to die from heart disease, and this could be one factor...
...Clearly, it hasn't turned out," Surgeon General David Satcher said...
...adults, so we know that we can't change the stories of the past, but working together we can help to shape a different future for our children," Satcher said...