Koop
Subtitle: the memoirs of America's family doctor
By: C. Everett Koop.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Koop, C. Everett 1916-; Health officers -- United States -- Biography.; Pediatric surgeons -- United States -- Biography.
First sentence: On an ordinary day in August 1980, a call slipped through the screening system in my office at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Description: America's most popular and influential Surgeon General discusses the great medical issues of his tenure--AIDS, cancer from cigarette tobacco, and his anti-choice stance on abortion--and recounts his personal life from his early years in Brooklyn to today.
Notes: Includes index.