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Obama’s surgeon general pick has roots in rural America

By Lynda Waddington 7/13/09

The Alabama woman chosen by President Barack Obama to serve as U.S. Surgeon General has made it a priority to bring affordable health care into her state’s most impoverished areas.
Dr. Regina Benjamin, a family physician, established a rural health clinic in a small Alabama shrimping village along the Gulf Coast in the early 1990s. Although [...]

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