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Botany

(70,518 posts)
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 11:53 AM Oct 2014

President Obama's "unqualified" pick for Surgeon General


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Early Life and education
Murthy was born to a Kannada speaking family; his parents are originally from Karnataka, India. He was born in Huddersfield, England, but his family relocated to Miami, Florida when he was three years old. Murthy completed his early education in Miami, graduating as valedictorian from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1994. He then attended college at Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in three years with a bachelors degree in Biochemical Sciences. Murthy received an MD from Yale School of Medicine and an MBA in Health Care Management from Yale School of Management in 2003, where he was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine in 2006 from Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Career
Murthy is a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a Hospitalist Attending Physician and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also a founder and president of Doctors for America, a group of 15,000 physicians and medical students supporting Obama. In 2011, Murthy was appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama to serve on the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The group advises the National Prevention Council on developing strategies and partnerships to advance the nation's health.

He is co-founder and chairman of TrialNetworks, a cloud-based Clinical Trial Optimization System for pharmaceutical and biotechnology trials that improves the quality and efficiency of clinical trials to bring new drugs to market faster and more safely. He founded the company as Epernicus in 2008 to originally be a collaborative networking web platform for scientists to boost research productivity. Since 1995, he has also worked in H.I.V. prevention and AIDS education, co-founding and serving as president and chairman of a non-profit organization, Visions Worldwide, focused on that mission in the U.S and in India. He has been a prominent supporter of Obama's healthcare law.

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President Obama's "unqualified" pick for Surgeon General (Original Post) Botany Oct 2014 OP
Obama should have picked HIM to be the "ebola czar." muntrv Oct 2014 #1
As surgeon general he could have been "the ebola czar" ..... Botany Oct 2014 #3
The SG really could not be an ebola czar. former9thward Oct 2014 #5
It depends on the S.G. and how she/he sees the duties of the job. Botany Oct 2014 #7
And why are they blocking him? TlalocW Oct 2014 #2
The latter, of course. notrightatall Oct 2014 #4
Which is stupid because he would have little impact on gun laws hack89 Oct 2014 #6

Botany

(70,518 posts)
3. As surgeon general he could have been "the ebola czar" .....
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 11:58 AM
Oct 2014

.... but some in the senate have blocked him from coming up for a vote as surgeon general.

But according to Ted Cruz, Murthy isn't a health care professional.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025687915

former9thward

(32,025 posts)
5. The SG really could not be an ebola czar.
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 12:48 PM
Oct 2014

The Ebola czar was put in there to manage the response to the problem. That is not in the duties of the SG at all. The SG is a post which gives out information on health issues. It can't tell anyone what to do.

TlalocW

(15,384 posts)
2. And why are they blocking him?
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 11:55 AM
Oct 2014

Is it because he's "rabidly" anti-gun, or he believes gun death data should be recorded/paid attention to?

TlalocW

hack89

(39,171 posts)
6. Which is stupid because he would have little impact on gun laws
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 01:16 PM
Oct 2014

the Repukes are merely flexing their muscle because they can.

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