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 …read more