This strikes me as fairly cool - "Sanjay Gupta, Surgeon General?"

Or maybe I'm just happy that Obama isn't recycling yet another Clinton administration hack.

Sanjay Gupta, Surgeon General?:

"President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general, the cable news network said Tuesday. CNN said it has kept Gupta from reporting on health care policy and other matters involving the incoming Obama administration since learning he was under consideration for the post.

...Jacob Goldstein of the Wall Street Journal offers:

There's a certain logic to picking a TV talking head to be surgeon general, because the surgeon general is largely a talking head. The top doc does oversee the 6,000-member Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, but the real work of the job is traveling around the country, using the job as a bully pulpit to advance a public health agenda.

In this media-saturated era, who could do that better than a doc who's famous for explaining health issues on cable TV?"