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10 unusual facts about Surgeon General of the United States


Paul F. Schenck

Schenck, a member of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, introduced a bill in 1957 that would have prohibited the sale of vehicles discharging hydrocarbons in levels found dangerous by the Surgeon General.

Regulation of tobacco by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

In 1964, Surgeon General Luther Terry issued a report on smoking and health saying that tobacco causes lung cancer and is a main contributor to bronchitis.

Samuel Bookatz

One of these subjects, Cleveland Press science writer David Deitz, was on the National Reserve Council and was a consultant to the surgeon general.

Schaal, Arkansas

Former US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was born in Schaal.

Surgeon General

Thus, in the United States, the chief public health officer is the Surgeon General of the United States and each state has its own State Surgeon General.

Surgeon General of the United States

The Surgeon General is the overall head of the Commissioned Corps, a 6,500-member cadre of health professionals who are on call 24 hours a day, and can be dispatched by the Secretary of HHS or the Assistant Secretary for Health in the event of a public health emergency.

The insignia of the Surgeon General, and the USPHS, use the caduceus as opposed to the Rod of Asclepius

T.M.I.

Soon afterward, the Surgeon General of the United States presents her own talk to correct Randy's inaccurate information, giving her own bizarre formula that prompts Randy to beat her up in front of the class.

Tenth Presbyterian Church

Notable members have included C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General of the United States during the Reagan administration and one-time head of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Woodworth political family

They rose to prominence in the 19th century, serving in several states, in the United States House of Representatives, the Canadian House of Commons, and produced America's first Surgeon General.


1986 in LGBT rights

22 — In the battle against AIDS, Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop, publishes first government publications for the public on gay safer sex practices.

Autoeroticism

For example, in 1994 Bill Clinton fired Joycelyn Elders who was Surgeon General of the United States in part because she advocated teaching about masturbation in schools as a way of preventing teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

Doctors for America

On 14 November 2013, the co-founder and president of Doctors for America, Dr. Vivek Murthy, was nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama to be the Surgeon General of the United States.

MindFreedom International

In 2003, eight Mindfreedom members, led by then-executive director David Oaks, went on a hunger strike to publicize a series of "challenges" they had put forth to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the US Surgeon General and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

Sex education in the United States

Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States, is a notable critic of abstinence-only sex education.

Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States

Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States was a landmark report published on January 11, 1964 by the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, chaired by then-Surgeon General of the United States Luther Terry regarding the negative health effects of smoking.

William Holmes Crosby Jr.

During a visit by William Dameshek, then a leader in United States hemotology, Crosby so impressed Dameshek in his handling of hematologic patients that the latter contacted the then Surgeon General to request that Crosby be formally trained in hematology.