Regina Benjamin Surgeon General
Regina Benjamin Surgeon General – So when a community organizer becomes president who does he pick to be the next surgeon general.The answer is,another community organizer.President Barack Obama announced that Dr. Regina Benjamin who is a family physician from Alabama is his choice to become his surgeon general.So who is Dr. Regina Benjamin? According to the Guardian:
Benjamin was the first black woman to head a state medical society, received the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights and just last fall received a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” But she made headlines in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with her determination to rebuild her rural health clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, which serves 4,400 patients who would be hard-pressed to find care elsewhere.
There is a clip of Benjamin being introduced at the White House below.
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