Friday, March 6, 2009

Dr. Sanjay Gupta - Won't be the Next Surgeon General

Dr. Sanjay Gupta is the chief medical correspondent on CNN. He had been approached for the position of the US Surgeon General. However, he recently announced that he will not be pursuing this position and he will focus his time on neurosurgery and on his family. I'm sure he finds his current lifestyle fun and exciting - he gets to practice surgery at Emory and he travels the world to report for CNN. He has done an excellent job blending the clinical and non-clinical worlds.

The current Acting Surgeon General is Rear Admiral Steven K. Galson, M.D., M.P.H. and the Acting Deputy Surgeon General is Rear Admiral Robert C. Williams, P.E., DEE. John Maynard Woodworth (1871-1879) was the first Supervising Surgeon of the Marine Hospital Service.

2 comments:

  1. What a cool guy. I really respected Gupta in the past for his multi-faceted life. Now I respect him for being humble enough to realize his limits and focus on what he already has on his plate.

    Although he would have made a great Surgeon General.

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  2. I think that Dr. Gupta has a very interesting life. He's a physician, a celebrity, and a world traveler.

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