Dr Regina Benjamin
Posted on 07/13/2009 9:20:53 AM PDT by kenth
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama turned to the Deep South for the next surgeon general, a rural Alabama family physician who made headlines with fierce determination to rebuild her nonprofit medical clinic in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
An administration official said Obama will announce the nomination of Dr. Regina Benjamin later Monday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to upstage the official announcement.
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Ahhh besides placing warnings on cigarette packages, what does the surgeon general do.
A red state (possible conservative)...not many liberals live in the country.
Well, when appointed by a Democrat, the Surgeon General typically talks about the positive aspects of masturbation.
Dr Regina Benjamin
Also, don't expect her to wear the Naval uniform.
On the other hand, the woman makes house calls in Bayou Le Batre, and she stayed in Bayou Le Batre even after she got a MacArthur Genius Grant. It says something about her character that she didn't move to a bigger place and make more money, when she could have.
Let's see, remember her?
No doubt it was a Totus/phonetic mix-up. Meant to choose an allah doctor.
Forrest Gump's doctor?
CNN must be out of favor with the White House. Gupta wanted that job, I read somewhere.
You’re right, I did forget that. I guess I was too busy sorting my socks
Year of Birth / Death b. 1956
Medical School - University of Alabama at Birmingham
Geography LOCATION - Alabama
Career Path - General medicine: Family
Regina Benjamin practices as a country doctor in rural Alabama. As founder and CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic, Dr. Regina Benjamin is making a difference to the underserved poor in a small fishing village on the Gulf Coast of Alabama. It is a town of about 2500 people, about 80 percent of her patients live below the poverty level, and Dr. Benjamin is their only physician.
Dr. Benjamin's career has taken some interesting twists. While completing her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Xavier University in New Orleans, she served as a student intern-trainee for the Central Intelligence Agency. After earning her doctor of medicine degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1984, she served her internship and residency in family practice at the Medical Center of Central Georgia at Macon. From 1990 to 1995 she was a medical director at several nursing homes, and in 1993 she went on a medical mission to Honduras.
Dr. Benjamin earned an M.B.A. degree in 1991. The same year she was selected for the American Medical Association's "Unsung Hero Campaign". In 1995 she was named a "Person of the Week" on ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and in 1997 she received the Kaiser Family Foundation's Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights. She was interviewed by People magazine in the article "Always On Call," in May, 2002 and was the subject of an "Everyday Heroes" feature in the January 2003 issue of Reader's Digest.
When her clinic was reduced to rubble by Hurricane Georges in 1998, Dr. Benjamin rolled up her sleeves and helped rebuild it, and continued to serve her patients by making house calls in her 1988 Ford pickup. As she explains her motivation, "I hope I make a difference one person at a time. By making a patient feel better, by being able to tell a mother that her baby is going to be okay. Whether her baby is four or forty-four the look on the mother's face is the same. I also hope that I am making a difference in my community by providing a clinic where patients can come and receive health care with dignity."
Among numerous professional and volunteer memberships and honors, Dr. Regina Benjamin has received more than $11 million in research support. She served on the American Medical Association's Women in Medicine Panel from 1986 to 1987, and was president of the American Medical Association Education and Research Foundation from 1997 to 1998. As president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, she was the first African American woman president of a state medical society in the United States.
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She may actually be a good choice!
They first had to find a muslim hospital in the US...
Well, she may be a lib, probably is if Obama appointed her, but God bless her for sticking in Bayou la Batre at least.
}:-)4
thought so....
She doesn't believe doctors should make money.
They (Obama) came to him, and he declined the opportunity.
According to Rush she thinks doctors shouldn’t make a profit.
ROFL! I thought almost the exact same thing since the title said “Ala doctor.”
Dress in snappy uniforms.
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