President-elect Barack Obama will name CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta as United States Surgeon General. From the Washington Post:
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.
Here is a clip that I bumped into on Blue Mass Group, where Gupta gets into a pretty good debate with Michael Moore over Gupta’s critique of some of Moore’s facts (cited in the movie Sicko)
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Just for the record, Gupta was wrong on most (all?) of his points – and Moore was right. CNN later gave what amounted to an admit of guilt, if not a full apology.
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It was pretty clear that Gupta got called out when he did not expect to be. Moore had enough juice to get on the air with him, and pretty much dismantled him piece by piece. Gupta was ill prepared in his initial critique, and even less prepared for the Moore rebuttal.
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