Obama Picks Dr. Regina Benjamin for Surgeon General

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Alabama family doctor who twice resurrected her clinic in a rural Alabama fishing village after it was devastated by hurricanes will be nominated to be the new U.S. surgeon general, an administration official said on Monday...

Benjamin won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 2008 for her work founding the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic to serve a Gulf Coast fishing community of 2,500 people in 1990. It was devastated twice, by Hurricanes Georges in 1998 and Katrina in 2005, according to a biography by the MacArthur Foundation.

"She has established a family practice that allows her to treat all incoming patients, many of whom are uninsured, and frequently travels by pickup truck to care for the most isolated and immobile in her region."

More information on this new Surgeon General at the site.

Internet scuttlebut is that she's an actual 'hands on' abortion provider.

What exactly are the qualifications needed for someone to be 'Surgeon General'?

Her wikipedia info

No qualifications needed. The title for the position will be changed to Surgeon Czar in order to bypass the hectic confirmation process. Our congress folk have their hands full between now and their break for Summer camp.