PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - L., J. F.
TI  - NATION'S DOCTOR—SURGEON GENERAL
DP  - 1994 Apr 01
TA  - Pediatrics
PG  - 655--655
VI  - 93
IP  - 4
4099  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/93/4/655.short
4100  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/93/4/655.full
SO  - Pediatrics1994 Apr 01; 93
AB  - 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.