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The Surgeon General is the overall head of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, a 6, 000-member Commissioned Corps of the USPHS, a 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.
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Surgeon and General
* 1933 – Joycelyn Elders, American physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States
* 1944 – Antonia Novello, Puerto Rican physician, 14th Surgeon General of the United States
C. Everett Koop was the Surgeon General of the United States under President Ronald Reagan.
The U. S. DDT ban took place amidst a growing public mistrust of industry, with the Surgeon General issuing a report on smoking in 1964, the Cuyahoga River catching fire in 1969, the fiasco surrounding the use of diethylstilbestrol ( DES ), and the well-publicized decline in the bald eagle population.
A committee that was headed by psychiatrist Brigadier General William C. Menninger developed a new classification scheme called Medical 203 that was issued in 1943 as a War Department Technical Bulletin under the auspices of the Office of the Surgeon General.
* 1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M. D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
* 1941 – David Satcher, 16th United States Surgeon General
* 1988 – A report by United States ' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
* 1990 – Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
* Surgeon General, Lieutenant General Dr. Abdul Qayum Tutakhail
* 1985 – Luther Terry, American physician and public health official, Surgeon General of the United States ( b. 1911 )
* 1949 – Richard Carmona, American physician and 17th Surgeon General of the United States
* 1916 – C. Everett Koop, 13th United States Surgeon General
United States Surgeon General David Satcher in 2001 issued a report stating that " there is no valid scientific evidence that sexual orientation can be changed ".
* 1911 – Luther Terry, American physician, 9th Surgeon General of the United States ( d. 1985 )
In 1614 John Woodall, Surgeon General of the East India Company, published " The Surgion's Mate " as a handbook for apprentice surgeons aboard the company's ships.
* Richard Carmona – former Surgeon General of the United States
* Thomas Novotny, former Assistant Surgeon General
* January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health ( the first such statement from the U. S. government ).
** A report by U. S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
Surgeon and is
Around the world, the combined term " Physician and Surgeon " is used to describe either a general practitioner or any medical practitioner irrespective of specialty.
* The Sector General books by James White The 1963 novel Star Surgeon is the source of the combined tractor / pressor beam weapon, the so-called " Rattler.
Ali G cannot comprehend why his erection is not actually a bone, accuses Dr. Koop of being a " player hater " when the doctor breaks the news that all people will eventually die, and tries to convince the Surgeon General that his deceased pet cat was actually human.
Dr. Lowell Stone (" Buster ") is quoted in interstitial material in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and referenced as Chief Surgeon at Ceres General.
In Dublin, Ireland there is a bronze plaque depicting this 13 August 1887 event on the statue of expedition Surgeon Major Thomas Heazle Parke who removed the arrow and sucked the poison from the wound.
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words is a book by Simon Winchester that was first published in England in 1998.
The term is especially associated with Colonel ( later Brigadier General ) Theodore C. Lyster ( the first Chief Surgeon, Aviation Section, U. S. Signal Corps, U. S. Army ), and with Major Isaac H. Jones.
The small town is regionally well-known because of the home of Surgeon General Luther Terry who put the cancer warnings on cigarette packages.
Fictional Naval Surgeon Stephen Maturin of Patrick O ' Brian's popular Aubrey – Maturin series series is a graduate of Trinity College.
Surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune, an avowed communist and pioneer of public medicine who gained notoriety in his innovative medical work with the Chinese army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, is an alumnus of the Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute.
Novello is the first woman and first Hispanic to serve as Surgeon General.
The Surgeon General of the United States is the operational head of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps ( PHSCC ) and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government.
The Surgeon General is nominated by the U. S. President and confirmed via majority vote by the Senate.
The Surgeon General serves a four-year term of office and, depending on whether the current Assistant Secretary for Health is a PHSCC commissioned officer or not, is the senior or second-highest ranking uniformed officer of the PHSCC, holding the grade of a three-star vice admiral.
The current Surgeon General is Regina Benjamin, who was confirmed by the U. S. Senate on October 29, 2009.
The Surgeon General is also the ultimate award authority for several public health awards and decorations, the highest of which that can be directly awarded is the Surgeon General's Medallion ( the highest award bestowed by board action is the Public Health Service Distinguished Service Medal ).
Surgeon and head
* Theodore J. Bauer ( 1909 – 2005 ), former Assistant Surgeon General of the United States and head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
In May 1900, Reed, a major, returned to Cuba when he was appointed head of the Army board charged by Surgeon General George Miller Sternberg to examine tropical diseases including yellow fever.
When Governor Richard Caswell, with the rank of major general, took to the field at the head of these citizen-soldiers, he named Williamson to serve as the state's Physician and Surgeon General, a post Williamson held until the end of the war.
The term Surgeon General is also a used in the British Armed Forces for the head of medical services.
The Surgeon General is also head of the U. S. Army Medical Department ( the AMEDD ).
When the second reorganization took place the following spring ( 1968 ) the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs for DHEW, Dr. Philip Lee, replaced the Surgeon General as head of PHS.
In 1989, the U. S. Senate confirmed Mason as Assistant Secretary for Health, which made him head of the United States Public Health Service, and Acting Surgeon General.
, Vice Admiral Matthew L. Nathan is the 37th Surgeon General of the United States Navy and is the head of the Medical Corps.
Orthopaedic Surgeon and head of Shriners Hospitals for Children, received $ 807, 917 salary / compensation from the charity.
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