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- booksnmore4you, on 01/07/2009, -14/+185IT'S A PUBLIC RELATIONS POSITION, NOT A POLICY ONE.
Keep this first in mind. - CrikeyMike, on 01/06/2009, -11/+99Michael Moore might be feeling a bit "Sicko" about the possible nomination: http://technorati.com/videos/youtube.com%2Fwatch%3 ...
- wreckosaurus, on 01/07/2009, -11/+98Why is everyone up in arms about this, he's highly qualified. He's a professor of neurosurgery at Emory, one of the top medical schools in the country. He's not just some dude on tv.
- csxero, on 01/07/2009, -8/+87Is he really that bad? He seems to know his ***** and I've always liked him. Can anyone explain why he's such a poor choice?
- diggum85, on 01/07/2009, -9/+82Yeah, couldn't they find someone a little better than a run of the mill neurosurgeon?
- oboshoe, on 01/07/2009, -4/+73General Gupta
Which Star Wars episode was he in? - Ajaynow, on 01/07/2009, -14/+80I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV.
- inactive, on 01/07/2009, -12/+74I misread the name as Sanjaya at first. Imagine my shock and confusion!
- bigfruitbasket, on 01/07/2009, -32/+94This guy has the pedigree for this appointment. He's no slouch. Some of you diggers, however, are major league slouches in your own right. When you get an MD, then you might have a say in Dr. Gupta's appointment. I think he'd be a fine Surgeon General.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 01/07/2009, -0/+54Performs surgery on all generals wounded in battle.
- inactive, on 01/07/2009, -3/+52From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgeon_General_of_th ...
"[...] the office is not a particularly powerful one, and has little direct impact on policy-making"
I'm sure that all the reactions here are from people well-versed in what the Surgeon General actually does. - radicalchaos, on 01/07/2009, -6/+52When I read the title I thought it was a joke.
- shnjhnsn, on 01/06/2009, -5/+48Well he is standing in a muddy lake, business like...
- kanabiis, on 01/07/2009, -1/+42He puts warnings on cigarette packages, duh.....
- Strman, on 01/07/2009, -9/+50To some people, any choice made by Obama is going to be a bad choice.
- iceman0113, on 01/07/2009, -5/+44The guys doesn't like marijuana either, even on a medicinal level:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1 ...
Even though he states, "True, there are health benefits for some patients. Several recent studies, including a new one from the Scripps Research Institute, show that THC, the chemical in marijuana responsible for the high, can help slow the progress of Alzheimer's disease. (In fact, it seems to block the formation of disease-causing plaques better than several mainstream drugs.) Other studies have shown THC to be a very effective antinausea treatment for people--cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, for example--for whom conventional medications aren't working. And medical cannabis has shown promise relieving pain in patients with multiple sclerosis and reducing intraocular pressure in glaucoma patients." - paygrey, on 01/07/2009, -23/+61If ever there was a high-profile douchebag more in the pocket of big pharma, I've never seen 'em... The sad part is that he seems to be totally unaware of his predicament...completely brainwashed. This is bad.
- nullcodes, on 01/07/2009, -2/+36A rock star that has performed neurosurgery in a war zone on US soldiers and Iraqi civilians with combat wounds in Iraq?
- GrodyChamp, on 01/07/2009, -4/+37I just heard Bobby Flay is going to be appointed the head of the FDA. Man, can he grill!
- adiggityam, on 01/07/2009, -2/+34Excellent, excellent point. You just calmed me down a bit.
- Schmapdi, on 01/07/2009, -3/+34Did any of you guys even read the article - some quotes
"Gupta has always been drawn to health policy. He was a White House fellow in the late 1990s, writing speeches and crafting policy for Hillary Clinton."
"His role as journalist and physician have sometimes overlapped. During the 2003 Iraq invasion, Gupta was embedded with a Navy unit called Devil Docs and, while covering its mission, performed brain surgery five times, the first of which was on a 2-year-old Iraqi boy."
So - a neurosurgeon with political experience and connections, and a brave bad-ass who performs brain surgery in a dusty tent in Iraq. But obviously since he's on TV he's a joke appointment. Besides - I've seen him on the Daily Show and others - he seems to be good at explaining complicated medical info to laymen, which is a great skill for a surgeon general. - smoothmedia, on 01/07/2009, -6/+35This is actually a brilliant choice. Gupta is not only qualified for the job (neurosurgeon, has had previous experience in clinton admin) he is absolutely an ideal choice due to his experience explaining public health/medical issues on television in such an effective way for many years. He's also done some awesome work with wounded troops and disaster victims. He's a well liked and respected public figure, which will make him a very effective surgeon general. It doesn't seem like most of the commenters in this thread have any idea what the surgeon general does, other than put warnings on cigarette packages.
- MaxxusFlamus, on 01/07/2009, -0/+27yah, first a nobel prize winning physicist and now a brain surgeon....these 'rock stars' have absolutely no substance at all...
- AmazingSteve, on 01/07/2009, -4/+30And the rest of us are a little disappointed in armchair quarterbacks with no real clue. He's a respected Doctor, not the ***** Weather Man.
- adiggityam, on 01/07/2009, -11/+36WWWWWWWWWWWWWHAT?
- Pareidoliatic, on 01/07/2009, -8/+32I watched that "talking head puppet" brain surgeon help rescue and treat a wounded soldier while under fire in the Gulf War. Troll.
- fearlessfx, on 01/07/2009, -1/+24Imagine if his tech advisor was Steve Jobs... Digg would implode.
- nullcodes, on 01/07/2009, -2/+24He is a neurosurgeon, not the weatherman as someone above said. You guys have not read his bio. He's not Joe the plumber. Among other qualifications and experience he has performed neurosurgery in a war zone on US soldiers and Iraqi civilians with COMBAT wounds in Iraq. That alone is experience above what most doctors have. And let's not forget that neurosurgery is considered one of the harder aspects of medicine.
Also, being with CNN and talking to the public does give someone experience and interaction that can be useful for the PR role that the Surgeon General is responsible for! The role does require some level of rock star in addition to medical knowledge. - organik, on 01/07/2009, -10/+32Because he's a pharmaceutical co. shill. And he fought Michael Moore on Sicko's facts and was repeatedly proven wrong, but still held his position.
- snoogit, on 01/07/2009, -1/+22Who right now, without googling it can even name the Surgeon general?
- MacEnvy, on 01/07/2009, -4/+25He does have some troubling pharmaceutical industry ties and a poor opinion of universal health care - but as a doctor and a public health advocate he is second to none. Considering this role focuses on press, advocacy and leadership, not actual policy-making, he has the potential to be a fantastic and accessible choice.
- inactive, on 01/06/2009, -2/+22He is collecting leeches for his practice...
- Chuckanut, on 01/07/2009, -18/+37Maybe you linked to the wrong video clip, because Gupta makes a solid point regarding a common misconception about free health care and taxes. Michael Moore sounds more like the co-worker I caught eating my sandwich in the break room: exposed and stuttering. Mr. Moore isn't very good at debate unless he has control over the final edit.
- unii, on 01/07/2009, -2/+20Maybe he didn't link to the wrong video....
A July 9, 2007, broadcast of CNN's The Situation Room aired a fact check segment by Gupta on Michael Moore's 2007 film Sicko in which Gupta stated that Moore had "fudged facts".[5] Immediately following the segment, Moore was interviewed live on CNN by Wolf Blitzer. Moore said that Gupta's report was inaccurate and biased, and Moore later posted a detailed response on his website.[6] Moore accused CNN and Gupta of being biased in favor of the drug industry because most of the sponsors for their medical coverage, including Gupta's reports, were drug companies. On July 10, 2007, Gupta debated Moore on Larry King Live, and, on the 15th, CNN released a statement in response to Michael Moore's rebuttal. In it, they apologized for an error in their on-air report, having stated that in the film Moore reported Cuba spends $25 per person for health care when the film actually gave that number as $251. CNN attributed this to a transcription error. CNN defended the rest of Gupta's report and issued a point-by-point response to Moore's response in which CNN contended that Moore's comparison of data from different sources in different years was in effect "cherry picking" results, at the cost of statistical accuracy. This is also where Gupta stated his view of society as being based on the degree to which "we take care of those that can't take care of themselves." [7] CNN also admitted that, in his debate with Moore, Gupta had afterwards committed a second error, mistakenly contesting Moore's observation that Gupta's one on-air expert was now associated with a Republican-linked think tank rather than a university (a fact which the chyron on Gupta's original report had stated correctly).[8][9][10] Gupta's exact language, according to the official CNN transcript, was "he is with a think tank and his only affiliation is with Vanderbilt University." [11]
And maybe Gupta had his numbers and figures ass backward. - consonance, on 01/07/2009, -0/+17Oh, you mean he pastes the warnings on each carton by hand?
- MrQuoz, on 01/07/2009, -7/+24Okay, some people are just drama queens. I swear. After Bush made it possible so that pharmacists don't have to prescribe you the medicine you want/need because they find it immoral, you whine over a neurosurgeon?
- xOutlawx, on 01/07/2009, -2/+19Who?
- SuperMoses, on 01/07/2009, -7/+24BREAKING: Obama replaces Robert Gibbs with Billy Mays as White House Press Secretary.
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -0/+16I think he was the guy who said its a trap or something
- Typhoon2009, on 01/07/2009, -0/+16What the hell does the surgeon general do anyway?
- inactive, on 01/07/2009, -2/+17Anyone complaining that Gupta is "anti universal health care" and that it automatically makes a liar out of Obama need to chill out and read booksnmore4you above, lest you look like idiots.
- BedPost, on 01/07/2009, -0/+15I'm hijacking this comment to say that this guy went to my highschool. My current teacher for AP Chemistry (Jim ***** Hanson) talks about this guy all the time, apparently he was his best student ever.
I can't believe he got an A... - inactive, on 01/07/2009, -1/+16THEN WHY DIDN'T THEY CHOOSE SOMEONE WITH EXPERIENCE IN THE MEDIA? /oh wait...
- guyincognitoo, on 01/07/2009, -0/+14That would be funny. I can see him yelling at the press.
- comfortssimple, on 01/07/2009, -9/+23That's awesome. But is Sanjay Gupta qualified or are we entering celebrity politics? We had the era of legacy politics and now we are entering celebrity politics.
- noangelcame, on 01/07/2009, -3/+16Gupta keeps saying that Healthcare in France isn't free (since you pay for it in taxes),. and Michael Moore says,. it is free.
I think Moore would have made his argument better by saying,. it's as free as getting protection from the Fire Department or the Police Department.
Of course you pay for these services through taxes, we all know that. However, because the Fire Department doesn't have to check to see your "Fire Insurance" card before turning on the hose,. we view it as a free service.
It's all about changing our collective mentality. Do we think it's worth it to us as a society to help everyone, regardless if they as individuals can afford it, when it comes to protection from fire, crime,.. and disease?
When we say yes, to one or more of these, then of course we should expect our taxes to go up accordingly.
However, I would still think of it as free, if I ever needed to go to the emergency room and didn't have to worry about filing for bankruptcy the next morning, all while knowing I'm paying a bit higher in taxes.
- watcht, on 01/07/2009, -3/+16His stance on what some of us would like: He's sides with the pharmaceuticals and hates marijuana use whether recreational or medicinal. Personally I dislike the choice due to him working with CNN, and I wonder if that may somehow effect any of his decisions, but whatever surgeon generals rarely make any descisions.
- inactive, on 01/07/2009, -3/+16I wonder how Michael Moore is taking the news...
- mbraynard, on 01/07/2009, -4/+17The Surgeon General was never really in charge of anything.
- consonance, on 01/07/2009, -1/+14Uh, Dr. Phil?
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