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Obama chooses Ala. doctor as next surgeon general (AP)

13/07/2009 21:24:14 Yahoo
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President Barack Obama, left, congratulates Dr. Regina Benjamin, center, as Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius applauds, following Obama's announcement of his nomination of Benjamin to the post of Surgeon General, Monday, July 13, 2009, in the White House Rose Garden in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - President Barack Obama turned to the Deep South for the next surgeon general, choosing a rural Alabama family physician who made headlines with fierce determination to rebuild her nonprofit medical clinic in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.


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