OT ~ CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta approached for Surgeon General position

[Cory]

"The Obama transition team approached Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief
medical correspondent, about becoming U.S. surgeon general, according to
sources inside the transition and at CNN..."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/06/gupta.surgeon.general/index.html

--- Cory, EXTREMELY ambivalent about the idea...

[Natalie Teeger]

Post by Cory
"The Obama transition team approached Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief
medical correspondent, about becoming U.S. surgeon general, according to
sources inside the transition and at CNN..."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/06/gupta.surgeon.general/index.html
--- Cory, EXTREMELY ambivalent about the idea...

I give up. What is wrong with the choice?

He is a real doctor.

Skilled neurosurgeon.

[Cory]

Post by Natalie Teeger

Post by Cory
"The Obama transition team approached Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief
medical correspondent, about becoming U.S. surgeon general, according to
sources inside the transition and at CNN..."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/06/gupta.surgeon.general/index.html
--- Cory, EXTREMELY ambivalent about the idea...

I give up. What is wrong with the choice?

Nothing is wrong with the choice at all. I just don't really care, for
some very odd reason. Hence, the reason I said I was ambivalent about
it.

--- Cory

Post by Natalie Teeger
He is a real doctor.
Skilled neurosurgeon.

[Sharon Too]

Post by Cory
"The Obama transition team approached Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief
medical correspondent, about becoming U.S. surgeon general, according to
sources inside the transition and at CNN..."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/06/gupta.surgeon.general/index.html
--- Cory, EXTREMELY ambivalent about the idea...
13 days until the End of an Error...

The surgeon general position is very much a PR and educational role. Dr.
Gupta more than qualifies in terms of educating and PR. He's also a
practicing neurosurgeon. When he covered the Iraq invasion a few years ago
for CNN, he actually gloved up and did 6 neurosurgeries including one on a
little Iraqi girl.

Can you name the current surgeon general?? :-) He's done absolutely nothing
and has no face value in the public or with professionals.

I think this is a brilliant choice.

[Hunter]

Post by Sharon Too

Post by Cory
"The Obama transition team approached Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief
medical correspondent, about becoming U.S. surgeon general, according to
sources inside the transition and at CNN..."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/06/gupta.surgeon.general/index.html
--- Cory, EXTREMELY ambivalent about the idea...
13 days until the End of an Error...

The surgeon general position is very much a PR and educational role. Dr.
Gupta more than qualifies in terms of educating and PR. He's also a
practicing neurosurgeon. When he covered the Iraq invasion a few years ago
for CNN, he actually gloved up and did 6 neurosurgeries including one on a
little Iraqi girl.
Can you name the current surgeon general?? :-) He's done absolutely nothing
and has no face value in the public or with professionals.
I think this is a brilliant choice.

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People think "TV doctor" means that he or she is automatically a hack
or even an actor mostly. They don't bother to actually check their
backgrounds. If they did they would discover the reason they are on
TV is because they are fairly prestigious. Dr. Timothy Johnson is
another "TV Doctor" with a prestigious past that earned him a TV
spot:

http://tinyurl.com/a3vbru

Of course, there are exceptions like Dr. Phil McGraw:

http://tinyurl.com/ax6bky

Very questionable ethics to put it kindly.