Posted on 07/13/2009 10:09:09 AM PDT by SandRat
Regina Benjamin, the youngest doctor and first black woman admitted to the American Medical Association, is President Obama's pick to be surgeon general.
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Another “victim”, huh?
So as a physician, she could not muster the financial resources and exercise personal responsibility enough to mitigate her victimhood?
“Regina Benjamin, the youngest doctor and first black woman admitted to the American Medical Association”
Uh, The AMA is hardly an exclusive club.
Membership is granted to anybody who can write the check for the membership fee.
In 1973, I became a member as a 1st-year med student at the age of 21. Was she younger than that?
“Katrina Victim”
...if I hear that one more time.....
What about all the people in Florida? They suffer storms every year. Why are they not “victims”?
Because they take responsibilty and pick themselves up?
Strike up ANOTHER affirmative action pick by our gloroius leader.
“Benjamin said that her medical school was paid for by the National Health Service Corps, a program that helps underserved communities. She said in exchange, she was placed in Bayou La Batre, an area that desperately needed health providers. She decided to stay. Benjamin has served as the associate dean for rural health at the University of South Alabama’s College of Medicine and was president of the State of Alabama Medical Association from 2002-2003. Her nomination for surgeon general requires Senate confirmation.”
Another sob fest for the dims...another free rider...I love making out our regular $700 monthly checks to pay for college and then voting these “gifted” people into office. Gifted is right...and we gave them the gift...
Actually, the article describes her as the youngest doctor and first black woman admitted to the AMA’s Board of Trustees, not the AMA.
The article should have said the AMA’s Board of Trustees.
This will be another “historic” event.. like all of zeros moves..
Another one of the THUGS
No doubt she comes with a compelling personal story for this historic appointment, that breaks all records for presidential appointments, and will further help in carrying our country forward, and be consistent with Obama’s comprehensives plans. All countries around the world will now benefit from this fresh, new, innovative and broad based solution of the worlds—first in history—health problems.
All bow......
Fox News has it WRONG, and spewing a press release they haven’t researched.
Benjamin finished her FP residency at MCCG in Macon, GA in 1997. Then went to Bayou La Batre, AL and formed a clinic, that got damaged by Hurricane Georges. NOTHING in there about Katrina. May be there was some damage, maybe not. The Katrina victim stuff gives pro Obama anti Bush cachet, and may not be true except in the general sense that ALL in Bayou La Batre were hit. Please forward out to FR news/accuracy dept. and to the members. Get this out. Probably an OK pick for a Surgeon general— EXCEPT what is most important— she thinks doctors shouldn’t make a profit,and is for surprise, Obamacare!
Here is her BIO from the Natl Inst. of Health site:
“Regina Benjamin practices as a country doctor in rural Alabama. As founder and CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic, Dr. Regina Benjamin is making a difference to the underserved poor in a small fishing village on the Gulf Coast of Alabama. It is a town of about 2500 people, about 80 percent of her patients live below the poverty level, and Dr. Benjamin is their only physician.
...Dr. Benjamin earned an M.B.A. degree in 1991. The same year she was selected for the American Medical Association’s “Unsung Hero Campaign”. In 1995 she was named a “Person of the Week” on ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and in 1997 she received the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights. She was interviewed by People magazine in the article “Always On Call,” in May, 2002 and was the subject of an “Everyday Heroes” feature in the January 2003 issue of Reader’s Digest.
When her clinic was reduced to rubble by Hurricane Georges in 1998, Dr. Benjamin rolled up her sleeves and helped rebuild it, and continued to serve her patients by making house calls in her 1988 Ford pickup. As she explains her motivation, “I hope I make a difference one person at a time. By making a patient feel better, by being able to tell a mother that her baby is going to be okay. Whether her baby is four or forty-four the look on the mother’s face is the same. I also hope that I am making a difference in my community by providing a clinic where patients can come and receive health care with dignity.”
I have been involved in community activities since high school, and organized medicine such as the American Medical Association and the State medical associations, since medical school. By being involved, working hard and trying to do a good job, I have been elected to positions of leadership. I have remained involved to help improve healthcare in our community. Career-wise I still have a lot to do. We still have a lot of problems with our health care system, the high number of uninsured and underinsured, the need for improved access to healthcare services as well as a need for improved personal responsibility of our own health, good education, clean air, clean water and good work place environments.”
This one was historic too......
Another branch off the ugly liberal government-food train ....
Another far-left lunatic and utter loser, propped-up by affirmative action and the media brothel. I’d love to see her MCAT scores. She says that no doctor should be allowed to make a profit. Hello? HELLO??
“It is a town of about 2500 people, about 80 percent of her patients live below the poverty level, and Dr. Benjamin is their only physician.”
Guess they will be doing without, now...
Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, AA has got to go.
She was such a goofy piece of work.
;>)
Other than Hillary- who got to be SOS as a ‘quid pro quo’, is there going to be any white faces in this administration?
His introduction of her was nothing more than an opportunity to pitch his health care plan on TV.
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