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by Denise Stewart onJuly 14, 2009
President Obama’s surgeon general pick is a small-town doctor confronting big-time problems.
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July 13, 2009
President Obama today announced his intention to nominate Dr. Regina Benjamin to the position of United States Surgeon General. In doing so, Ibama adds to his roster of daring and creative appointments: Benjamin is a Morehouse-trained physician and specialist in rural poverty and health outcomes who would be the second black woman to serve in the position....
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July 13, 2009
She's a family doctor from Bayou La Batre, Alabama...
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