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When physician and CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta spurned President Obama's offer to become U.S. surgeon general, the White House resumed its search for qualified candidates to fill a role Obama called "America's leading spokesperson on issues of public health." On July 13, the President finally tapped Alabama physician Regina Benjamin for the post, calling his nominee "a relentless promoter of prevention and wellness programs" who "represents what's best about health care in America." A look at her accomplishments and accolades: See "A Guide to Preventing Illness at Every...
...Born Marshall Clement Sanford on May 28, 1960, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to a prosperous heart surgeon. His family spent summers in Beaufort County, South Carolina, where Sanford moved...
...Intermountain in Utah - Mayo is dedicated to offering integrated and coordinated care, with a broad network of providers working together to reduce redundant tests and office visits, improve disease management and generally avoid treating patients like pinballs. "It's a team sport here," says David Lewallen, a Mayo orthopedic surgeon. "A bunch of tennis players doing their own thing just doesn't work - it's too expensive, and it's bad medicine. We only do things to help the patient, and we're all looking over each other's shoulders...
...also saves lives - sometimes in spite of the efforts of doctors, who, in Nurse Jackie, are at worst arrogant and obtuse, at best brilliant but detached. Her best friend, surgeon Eleanor O'Hara (Eve Best), lays out the differences in their mind-sets: Jackie, she says, became a nurse because she wanted to help people. "When I was a little girl," Eleanor says, "I took a butter knife and opened up a dead bunny to see how it worked. That's why I'm a doctor...
...Increasing public scrutiny of the tobacco industry finally came to a head in 1964 when the U.S. Surgeon General, Luther Terry, released his Advisory Committee Report on Smoking and Health. The staggeringly comprehensive report was based on more than 7,000 scientific studies linking smoking with lung cancer, emphysema and other diseases. The report led a surge in restrictive legislation, including mandatory warning labels on packages and a ban on advertising on radio or television. Tobacco companies in return simply changed strategy, advertising to younger markets with candy cigarettes and mascots like Joe Camel - whom a 1991 study found...