Title: Surgeon General's warning
Description: What does it mean to be the nation's doctor? In this engaging narrative, journalist Mike Stobbe examines the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General, underlining how it has always been an anomaly within the federal government with a unique ability to influence public health. But now Surgeon Generals compete with other high profile figures, like the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Furthermore, in an era of declining budgets, when public health departments eliminate tens of thousands of jobs, an invisible Surgeon General seems.
Subjects: Public health administration, Holism, Administrative Personnel, Science, MEDICAL, United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General, United States Government Agencies, Osteopathy, Holistic Medicine, Public Health Administration, Alternative Medicine, HEALTH & FITNESS, Essays, United States Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General, History, Physicians, Atlases, Reference, Family & General Practice, Politics, United States, United states, public health service, Political science, united states, Science, history, united states
Places: United States