Who would be a better Surgeon General than Sanjay Gupta?

[zulchzulu]

Poll question: Who would be a better Surgeon General than Sanjay Gupta?

[Occam Bandage]

1. Gregory House, MD.

Best doctor ever.

[JayMusgrove]

42. Please tell us uninformed people who the heck this guy is... and.....

I guess he has an MPH and DPH degree as well?

If so, I hope you can give us a link to his Curricula Vita.

[XemaSab]

63. .

[JayMusgrove]

65. If this is some media or rock star, I'm sorry, I still have no ideo who

you people who seem to be mesmerized by the media find some sexy body worthy of my notice.

Let's TRY to keep this forum somewhat relevant to American politics, NOT to the media that keeps us from honst discussion of issues.

Sorry, you fail to inform, and you think everyone in the world lives in your little bubble. Too bad for you.

Try to inform next time you try to post.

[Occam Bandage]

67. Everyone listed is a fictional doctor from a television show.

Gregory House is the fictional star of the television drama "House." The character, which is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's original model for Sherlock Holmes, is a brilliant but antisocial, arrogant, and drug-addicted diagnostician who instills equal parts respect and loathing among those who work with him. I find the show consistently clever and engaging.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. No Dr. Nick?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. For that matter, no Dr. No or Dr. Evil?

[DevonRex]

15. Dr. No is the current surgeon general. Keep up!! :)

[K Gardner]

3. I'd actually like to hear some serious responses to this VERY GOOD question !!

[Occam Bandage]

9. We're DU. We don't propose alternatives. nt

[stopbush]

12. But the poll was posed humerously, not seriously.

[K Gardner]

30. I know :-) It's still a damned good question.

[bigwillq]

23. Howard Dean (nt)

[Cha]

51. Imo, Dean would

be better from what I've recently been learning about Sanjay.

[moc]

26. I posted a serious alternative below. Dr. Paul Farmer. nt

[Barack_America]

35. I also posted a serious pick below.

[DevonRex]

4. Definitely Dr. House.

Yum.

[Fridays Child]

5. Howie Mandel. He was a TV doc, too, and he's really careful about germs.

:hippie:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Jenny McCarthy.

She's not a shill for Big Pharma.

:crazy:

[stopbush]

8. Blago? Burris? Larry David?

[DevonRex]

10. Zach should be in charge of music. Definitely music.

Love the soundtracks.

[Solon]

11. This Doctor, why not, he was genetically engineered!

[Starry Messenger]

13. Other:

He's a bit on the nervous side...but brilliant.

[TheMightyFavog]

58. What about Doc Cottle?

It would be kind of funny to have a chain-smoking Surgeon General.

[Starry Messenger]

61. Very true!

Although some people here might say it would be preferable to have a guy who allowed humanity to be almost decimated by a race of cyborgs over THE SMOKER!11!!!

:hide:

[wryter2000]

14. I should have said other

Why not go whole hog and go with Dr. Dean Edell?

[Fovea]

16. Lance Armstrong.

If you don't have to be a spy to run the CIA, who says you have to be an MD to avocate public health?

[MADem]

17. Dr. Ruth? nt

[sandnsea]

18. Dr. Ruth - and definitely not a "chick"

which I'm surprised to see you toss around so willy-nilly.

[Cleita]

19. Other:

Frazier Crane's brother, Dr. Niles Crane.

[rpannier]

20. I have two that I'm torn between

The Doc that built the 6 Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman (1970's series) or the William Daniels character from St Elsewhere

[slackmaster]

21. Dr. Kapuchnik, the Psychiatrist from the Fusco Brothers comic

[moc]

22. My vote for other: Dr. Paul Farmer: Harvard trained physician and founder of Partners in Health

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_farmer

Paul Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American anthropologist and physician, the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He currently resides in Cambridge, MA. His medical specialty is infectious diseases. Farmer is one of the founders of Partners In Health (PIH), an international health and social justice organization. His work is the subject of Tracy Kidder's 2003 book Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World.

[K Gardner]

29. OK, now THAT is an impressive resume and would have been an excellent pick !

[moc]

31. You should read the book about him (Mountains Beyond Mountains) which is an excellent read.

He's supposed to be quite charismatic as well. I know someone who knows him personally and says that he is a bit on the arrogant side, but I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing. I think he's got the moxy to be a good SG.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

24. If were Dr. Who we'd get a new one every so often.

[cbayer]

25. Our own McCamy Taylor!

:toast:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor

[Dennis Donovan]

27. Dr Zoidberg:

[NorthCarolina]

59. Zoidberg for Sturgeon General !!!! n/t

[librechik]

28. Dr. Howard Dean.

Gupta is a fact-slurring idiot--Michael Moore would be better than that talking head.

[Bluenorthwest]

32. Dr Benway

Or Dr John.

[abq e streeter]

66. Damn...beat me to it with Doc Benway

[Barack_America]

33. My vote: Marjorie Bowman, MD, MPA.

A damned-fine doctor and one of the nicest ladies I know.

Marjorie A. Bowman, MD

* Director, Center for Public Health Initiatives
* Member, MPH Advisory Committee, MPH Curriculum Committee
* Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
* Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Immediately after her family medicine residency at Duke University (board certified 1979 to present), Dr. Bowman served as a Medical Officer in the Public Health Service, working in the Health Resources Administration of the Bureau of Health Professions of the Department of Health and Human Services and as an instructor for the Uniformed University of the Health Sciences. Concurrently, Dr. Bowman earned her Masters of Public Administration and subsequently her second Board Certification in Preventive Medicine. She was an Assistant Dean and residency director at Georgetown University, then Department Chair of Family and Community Medicine at Bowman Gray School of Medicine (Wake Forest University) for 10 years prior to coming to Penn. Dr. Bowman currently edits the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine and the Yearbook of Family Practice. She was previously on the board of editors of JAMA and is now on the editorial board of the Merck Manual. She is widely published in areas related to behavior change of physicians and patients, women physicians, women's health, and nutrition. Her most recent published book is the third edition of Women in Medicine: Life and Career Management. Dr. Bowman is a former President of the American Board of Family Practice and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. She has served on multiple accreditation related site visits, and state and national government and organization committees. Dr. Bowman was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1993.

http://www.publichealth.med.upenn.edu/MarjorieBowman.shtml

[K Gardner]

43. I read something like this, and the other serious pick posted here, and it INFURIATES me as

a nurse. There are too many doctors who have selflessly devoted their lives to the betterment of their patients and the healthcare system as a whole.. and then there are the TV Personalities.

Good pick !

[Barack_America]

44. Totally. Gupta's like the "Sham Wow" of Surgeon Generals...

The "new and improved" and "as seen on TV" Surgeon General.

I both understand and am completely depressed that Obama thinks our country will only accept public health information from a spokesmodel. :(

And I'm glad that you're impressed with Dr. Bowman. I actually best know her as the director of our Family Practice rotations. She is as wonderful, kind and selfless as her bio suggests. I actually had no idea that she was so involved in our Public Health program. It doesn't seem there would be enough time in the day to do what she does. But I went ahead and ordered her "Women in Medicine: Career and Life Management" book, so I'll let you know if there are some tips in there!

[dbackjon]

34. Doogie Howser, MD

[Starry Messenger]

37. Nice choice. And his alter ego--

Dr. Horrible ;)

[Uzybone]

36. This guy

[Joanie Baloney]

38. Dr. Who, of course

The good doctor would be ready with his sonic screwdriver to save the day!




:) JB

[Stop Cornyn]

39. Sanjay Gupta is a fuckwit so pretty much anyone -- you need an "all of the above" option

[TheKentuckian]

40. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, off course

If he won't go for it then we'll take the holographic "Doctor" from Voyager. We need sass for the SG, damn it!

[Sebastian Doyle]

50. He's dead, Jim!

Which makes him sadly ineligible. :evilfrown:

[Fire1]

41. Howard Dean, M.D.

[polichick]

45. I'm partial to Hawkeye Pierce...

[Robeson]

46. Dr. Zhivago.

[Autumn]

47. House of course

The Doctor is brilliant. And he tells the truth,unlike Gupta.

[Spazito]

48. Agree! House is not out for PR that's for sure, lol...

whereas that is all Gupta is about. Love House, especially his "bedside manner, lol.

[Autumn]

49. I watch two

television shows, House is my main one. Love it.

[Sebastian Doyle]

52. If Howard Dean won't take the job, I'm all for Greg House

The fact that he's actually British won't interfere with his nomination, will it?

[Sonicmedusa]

53. Greg House

He believes everyone is lying. And in politics, they are.

[NoPasaran]

54. Doctor Jonathan Katz, Professional Therapist

[PBS Poll-435]

55. Other - Dr. Abby Lockhart

Aka Maura Tierney.

[AnnieBW]

56. The Holographic Doctor from "Star Trek: Voyager"!

"Please state the nature of the Health Care emergency."

[Balderdash]

57. Oh man, Dr. House would be way better than Gupta. nt

[harun]

60. Other: Sponge Bob Square Pants

[debbierlus]

62. Howard Dean -

[brentspeak]

64. Dr. Demento

[fujiyama]

68. How about this doc:

Dr Hibbert


or better yet, my favorite: "Hello Everybody", Nick Riviera



But I'm going to go with Zoidberg...but House would also kick ass. I've never watched an episode but the ads make it look good. Maybe I'll start...

[tucsonlib]

69. SERIOUSLY!

Dr. Andrew Weil!