<![CDATA[CNN Confirms: Gupta Approached About Surgeon General Post]]>

1.0 link 155879 <![CDATA[CNN Confirms: Gupta Approached About Surgeon General Post]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/07/cnn-confirms-gupta-approa_n_155879.html WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama's reported choice for surgeon general, CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, could bring a dose of star power to a job that hasn't had that much clout in decades.

Gupta doesn't just play a doctor on TV, he's a neurosurgeon who still scrubs in part-time in one of the nation's toughest hospitals when he's not on CNN assignments that have taken him from Hurricane Katrina to Iraq. He also has co-hosted a health "network" that beams feel-good...

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