Another surgeon general from Ark.?
We have calls on answering machines to check this hot neighborhood rumor:
It is that Dr. Joe Thompson, Arkansas's chief medical officer (he's unofficially come to be called the state's surgeon general) is under consideration for the job as U.S. surgeon general, now held on an acting basis by Rear Admiral Kenneth Moritsugu.
Thompson was instrumental in Huckabee administration efforts to expand insurance coverage and encourage healthier lifestyles to combat childhood obesity. The state has claimed some advances in this on the strength of a year's worth of mandated measurements of school children's body mass index. (A law that is under attack in the legislature currently.)
You may recall a previous surgeon general from Arkansas, name of Joycelyn Elders.
Anybody else heard this talk?
Comments
What about the UoA Trustee position that's coming up? Charles Scharlau is leaving.He is retired Chairman of Southwestern Energy (formerly Ark.Western Gas). He's served as UoA Trustee since March of 1997.
Sorry but the Morning News story is not online.
Posted by: Lwood![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/nav-commenters.gif)
|
January 27, 2007 05:28 PM
I have always been a big fan of Joycelyn Elders and think she was the 1st Swiftboat victim in modern history. Bill Clinton should have stuck it out and told her detractors to go to hell.
Posted by: Deathbyinches![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/nav-commenters.gif)
|
January 27, 2007 05:40 PM
Oops! Sorry but the Charles Scharlau story is online. Clik my name.
Posted by: Lwood![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/nav-commenters.gif)
|
January 27, 2007 05:44 PM
Dr. Elders was ahead of her time. She had a common sense approach to problem-solving.
Speaking of Surgeons General, have you seen Dr. Koop peddling "Life-Alert"? Sheesh.
Posted by: hugh mann![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/nav-commenters.gif)
|
January 27, 2007 06:35 PM
I liked Elders too. She had practical advice. The problem is that there are too many that don't WANT practical advice, they want advice colored by theocracy and ideology. They don't care about people dying or getting sick, all they care about is punishing those that don't follow THEIR idea of how they should act. Folks like that looooove punishment.
Posted by: rablib![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/nav-commenters.gif)
|
January 28, 2007 04:03 AM