Obama’s Choice for Surgeon General

The President announced his choice for Surgeon General yesterday. She’s 52-year old Regina Benjamin, and by all accounts, she’s a caring and talented woman. She runs a family practice in Alabama and Obama said that when clients couldn’t pay, she simply didn’t charge them. She also went without a salary when the clinic was not doing well. How often do we see something like that?

Benjamin’s family has had a history of what she calls “preventable diseases,” and even remarked that the reason her family couldn’t be there was because they all had struggled and lost to things like high blood pressure, diabetes, and lung cancer. This background will no doubt make her that much more determined to spread the word for us all to take care of ourselves.

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