Onward, Healthcare reform!
Obama just nominated Regina Benjamin, MD to be our new Surgeon General. She's a family doctor in the shrimping village of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, winner of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" and on board of trustees of the American Medical Association.
One article credited her going back as a physician for an MBA degree as evidence that she's politically savvy, presuming that people with political ambitions get MBAs. I'm thinking of my many MBA students who for some reason chose corporate paths. Hmmm.
To me, the fact that Dr. Benjamin spent much of her career dealing hands-on with poor folks in need of care bodes well for healthcare reform. And that's how Obama introduced her, someone "who understands the urgency of meeting this challenge in a personal and powerful way..."
Onward, healthcare reform!
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