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Another funny named dark skinned appointment...Must be a radical Hindu extremist-eh :???: :wink: :lol:
TV's Gupta Chosen for Medical Post
Pick for Surgeon General Brings Communication Skill
By Ceci Connolly and Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, January 7, 2009; Page A01
America's most famous television surgeon, Sanjay Gupta, is poised to take his black bag and microphone to the White House as President-elect Barack Obama's choice for U.S. surgeon general.
A neurosurgeon who is also a correspondent for CNN and CBS, Gupta was chosen as much for his broadcasting skills as for his medical résumé, suggesting that the incoming administration values visible advisers who can drive a public message. He has also been offered a top post in the new White House Office of Health Reform, twin duties that could make him the most influential surgeon general in history.
A practicing physician and one of People magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive," Gupta met for more than two hours with Obama in Chicago on Nov. 25, according to two sources with knowledge of the talks. Gupta, 39, later spoke with several Obama advisers, including Thomas A. Daschle, who will run the new White House policy office and the Department of Health and Human Services.
The globetrotting doctor has told Obama
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