Showing posts with label Nomination of Surgeon General blocked by NRA. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Would Doc Holliday Be OK?


Jon Stewart had a segment on "The Daily Show" last night that covered the nomination battle over Dr. Vivek Murthy, a Harvard medical instructor and medical technology entrepreneur, to be the next Surgeon General.  In short, Murthy's nomination is facing intense opposition from NRA-beholden Senators who found Murthy's past statements about gun safety as a public health issue a reason to go to battle stations.  Here's the clip:


Cartoonist Jan Sorenson cuts to the chase: why not let The Craziest Man On Earth select the Surgeon General (and why stop with that position?).

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