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On the other hand
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 Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 7:37 am Post subject: C. Everett Koop is dead |
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Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, whose anti-smoking campaign and outspoken, controversial positions on abortion, AIDS and drugs, elevated the obscure post to one of national influence, died at his home in Hanover, New Hampshire, on Monday. He was 96 years old.
Koop, a pediatric surgeon, served as the leading U.S. spokesman on public health matters and adviser to President Ronald Reagan from November 1981 until October 1989. His death was announced by Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, where he founded the C. Everett Koop Institute.
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An honorable man. Not least because, unlike many of his fellow social-conservatives, he keenly distinguished between his own personal views on morality, and his duties as a public-health official.
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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To quote the greatest Barbershop Quartet ever...
"For all the latest medical poop
Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.
Poo poo pa-doop." |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| I read an article a couple days before he died how he was the last "famous" surgeon general. I remember Clinton's first sg, but only because of her comment about masturbation, which led to her being replaced. No idea who has followed her. |
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