Word: surgeon
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...himself.) The decision to run violated a basic family tenet: First make your mark and your fortune, then run for office. Only those who knew him well had seen it coming. "He wasn't obsessed with politics, but it was always there," says Charles Younger, a Midland surgeon and longtime Bush jogging partner. A famously eligible bachelor, Bush had also surprised friends by courting and marrying--in just three months--a librarian named Laura Welch, who was as reserved and knowing as he was brash and noisy. She made him promise that she would never have to give a speech...
Since Elders' departure in 1994, Henry W. Foster Jr. was denied Senate confirmation to be surgeon general because he had been involved in performing abortions, and acting surgeon general Audrey F. Manely resigned to become the president of Spelman College in Atlanta...
Satcher was eventually confirmed by the Senate on February 10, 1998 and took the surgeon general's oath three days later. He is the second surgeon general to simultaneously hold the post of assistant secretary of health...
...Surgeon in General...
...underclass student asked me for some advice the day before he left to write a Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller. Clearly, he did not read the surgeon general's warning permanently branded to my head that reads: "Listening to this guy is extraordinarily dumb. He's a little nuts...