Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scientific and medical community that pro-life hectoring from the White House has driven away some well-qualified applicants from jobs in his department. The top spots at several important HHS divisions, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and the office of the Surgeon General, have not been filled. Says a former high-ranking department official: "Disillusionment is considerable, morale is low, and options...
...Hatch list have got high department posts: Constance Horner, the department's Under Secretary; James O. Mason, Assistant Secretary for Health; and Kay James, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. A fourth, former Hatch staffer Antonia Novello, is the White House nominee to succeed C. Everett Koop as Surgeon General...
...Surgeon General C. Everett Koop bravely distriubuted to the public his Surgeon General's Report on AIDS, the first committment on the part of the U.S. government to educate its citizens about the disease...
...scene from Oakland hospitals made a tough decision. "The mother is in the way, O.K.?" said intern Daniel Allen. "We're going to take a chain saw through the body to get to him." Even after that macabre operation, the boy was still trapped. Only when trauma surgeon James Betts amputated his right leg could Julio be freed. "He was moving and crying out," Betts explained later. "We couldn't just leave him there...
...Seventy-five percent of drug abusers said that their information about AIDS came from television," said Assistant Surgeon General Gary R. Noble. But, he said. TV news media's coverage of AIDS peaked in 1987 and has dropped 50 percent since then...