Public Health Organization. Report of the Committee on Public Health Organization of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, E. L. Bishop, Chairman. Section II, Public Health Service and Administration, White House Conference on Child Health and Protection.

1933 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 469-470
Author(s):  
Clem O. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
White House ◽  
Public Health Organization ◽  
Health Organization

NATION'S DOCTOR—SURGEON GENERAL

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 655-655
Author(s):  
J. F. L.
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Mass Education ◽  
White House ◽  
Surgeon General ◽  
Aids Crisis

The office of Surgeon General has off and on been slated for termination. But that was before Ronald Reagan's Surgeon General, the patriarchal, independent-minded C. Everett Koop, emerged from obscurity to become the telegenic evangelist of the AIDS crisis. Tolerated by the Reagan White House as a bargain-priced diversion from its own lassitude on AIDS, Koop demonstrated how the office could be used for mass education by a public health champion with a rhetorical flair. In TV parlance, the Surgeon General became the "nation's doctor." Koop's visibility was enhanced when he exercised the long-neglected right of Public Health Service officers to deck themselves out in navy-cut gold-braided uniforms.

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